Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Time should not complain...
...impression first made upon me was that of astonishment, which soon gave way to feelings of regret that the sentiments expressed in the above-mentioned article should exist among Harvard men. How can we wonder at the rapid progress of irreverence among young Americans! With what justice can we complain of the ignorant foreign population, by whose voice our great cities are governed, when our educated young men give utterance to such thoughts...
...public is all the time crying out against the ridiculously expensive star system, and yet does all it can to encourage it by going only on nights when the star sings. Half a house at "Aida," and a house and a half at "Faust"! Who can complain if the operatic manager continues to pay $1, 500 a night as long as he can squeeze that sum out of the long-suffering and long-eared public...
...most disagreeable things we must look forward to is a cold room; but we should not have nearly so much to complain of on this score if we would only throw up our windows now and then, and not try to raise the temperature of an atmosphere of carbonic-acid gas and tobacco-smoke. If we observe this simple rule, and are not very unfortunate in our choice of a room, we cannot deny that there is hardly any time so good for studying as a bright winter morning, or any time so good for reading as the "tumultuous privacy...
...important, though not very prominent, feature in this oration was Mr. Adams's satirical allusion to the proneness of men to forget or despise the teachings of experience. However well merited any general censure in this regard is, the orator had no occasion to complain for himself; the earnest attention his thoughts received and the general commendation afterwards given to them proving well enough that, if precepts are more eagerly inculcated by younger men, from no lips do they fall with a deeper impression than from those of the venerable statesman...