Word: complained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as competing for the Prix de Rome revealed the extraordinary ability of Berlioz and Debussy, so the awarding of an American Fellowship may bring out another MacDowell. Those who complain of the misdirected energies of the "materialistic" American people will be pleased to note the increasing tendency toward aesthetic appreciation, for, while not directly subsidized by the American government, the Academy functions under a charter from Congress. And who knows but that the flavor of foreign recognition is just the straw of confidence Americans want and need? After all, ours is an embryo development, sans tradition, sans reputation...
Many of us who are interested in educational problems complain of the American system in general as being fundamentally wrong, and we hear vague sighs for the English method. Examinations are prescribed work, the bane of our college existence, are said to be a mere cold blooded ticketing of students; there is no freedom. Through school and college we are dogged into receiving an education which has been aptly described as a fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution...
...fail to make a success or to find friends at college, often complain that friendships are made before college and that there are no opportunities for the stranger. In other words, it is the old cry of "Drag" and "Cliques." But it is indeed an old cry--one so often repeated that it has long since lost its meaning. For one disgruntled upper-classman there have usually been ten men who came into college friendless and unknown, yet were able by their merits to win the recognition they sought...
Seniors who are tempted to complain of this added responsibility should recall the numerous perplexities and mistakes of their freshman year. If they had had some definite person to question, some one intimately acquainted with their problems, these mistakes would have been fewer and less costly. The advisory system provides a method of giving this very useful advice...
...good many people complain about the results of college education and the time lost in what is known as college "life" as distinguished from college work. A good many colleges would try reforms, moreover, were it not for the weight of "traditions" and the opposition of more or less obscurantist alumni...