Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sure, the student will lose the soothing privilege of a grumble at thirty-three per cent in a prescribed study, nor can the ingenious Junior, a veteran at his trade, complain or explain, should next August discover to him an average of forty-nine and ninety-nine hundredths per centum. But these drawbacks are quite outbalanced by the many evident advantages to be derived from the machine...
...taken his place. It seems as if the men who are now rowing in the University Crew ought to know enough about pulling an oar to coach the second eight and coach them well. At any rate the second eight are doing good work, and the only thing to complain of is the small number of men who are actively interested in working for positions on it. We would recommend that some of the officers of the H. U. B. C. canvass the college for heavy and well-built men, and prevail upon them to work for the crew...
...Oberlin Review has its usual quota of heavy articles. The editors complain of the lack of annual examinations. Would that we could change places with them in this respect...
...great advantage could be derived from some general course, given principally by our own professors on subjects connected with their special departments. Such a course has just been arranged at Yale by the Linonia Society, the first lecture having already been delivered by Professor Sumner. At Yale, too, they complain of the want of just such a hall as we have here, so that, with our superior advantages in this respect, there is no reason why we should not be able to get up as good a course of lectures. The chief difficulty, we know, is to get somebody...
...articles in the Cornell Review for October are chiefly written by alumni, so that we cannot judge it by the same standard as other college papers. There is nothing of which to complain in the perfectly impartial account of the Freshman race, excepting perhaps the remark that "as usual, Cornell had won"; and that is too harmless a piece of self-deception to call out any reply...