Word: complainants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a professor decides before an examination what percentage of the class he will flunk, what percentage he will pass and what proportion of honor grades he will give, he lays himself open to a charge of gross injustice. To the student who dares complain he replies either that he is held down to the rules by a superior, or that he believes it the only satisfactory system. He can not, or will not, take into account the merit of the individual student. A man who writes an "A" paper thus receives a "B" simply because several other men wrote...
...moping owl does to the moon complain...
Anyone wishing to inquire or complain about rooms may do so at Russell...
...have to say almost all because some of our fellow-students had no Christmas celebration: they were the patients at the Infirmary, and of all of us, they should have had it. They did not complain, nor did they shed tears about it, but still they perhaps think that it would have been nice if they had had their Christmas fun also. If would have cheered them up and made them forget their troubles for a while. We must see that hereafter they will not be omitted...
Gentlemen: Not kicking or anything like that-your average is too high to complain about the slips-but would you try in the future to mark the difference between Boston College and Boston University? You speak (see TIME, Nov. 10, page 28) of "Harvard substitutes chastising Boston College." Wrong, of course. On the day in question, Boston College was thrashing the Haskell Indians 34 to 7 or some such score- the same Indians who last Saturday took a thumping fall put of Brown. You meant Boston University. No correction suggested, merely a note for hereafter. And no publicity for this...