Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Goldwater but also Communist Gus Hall. The Cornell Daily Sun is free to complain about anything and usually does. Last summer it all but made a Dreyfus case out of a graduate student who got bounced for living with a professor's niece. His defense was the university's lack of specific regulations-how could he know he was sinning...
Shoot the President. All this freedom has consequences, some not good. Diverse and isolated, Cornellians tend to live in their own little ruts. They flock to 14 sororities and 53 fraternities, but the mix is mostly emulsion. Bright ones complain of faculty inattention. In fact, most arts students go through without seminars, independent study or senior theses...
...Caouette's French Canadianness that is his true strength. He makes skilled demagogic use of Quebec's nagging dissatisfaction with its role in Canadian life. French Canadians make up nearly 30% of the country's population, and most of them feel like second-class citizens. They complain that they hold only 10% of the jobs in the federal civil service, usually at lower levels, that bilingualism, though given lip service in the federal capital at Ottawa, is ignored throughout the rest of the nation; that even their own province's economy is dominated by English-speaking...
...strange that the girls complain about the passivity of the teachers ("the Smith faculty has too many informers and not enough stimulators"), for one of the most striking characteristics of the Smith education is the marked passivity of the students. They sit blankly in lecture; large numbers of them knit. ("They don't mind as long as we don't drop the needles.") In seminar groups of less than a dozen, the teacher often has trouble eliciting any response at all, to say nothing of starting up a live-exchange...
Undoubtedly, the consistently poor records of the team contribute to this malaise. But every player on the junior varsity, despite a losing season, felt he had fun and enjoyed playing basketball while varsity players complain that basketball at Harvard is often not enjoyable...