Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ninth Regiment in December last; and still a third pulled last year. If, then, the fact that one of the '88 team has pulled on one of these many university teams destroys the justice of his pulling for '88 now, it would be perfectly right for '88 to complain of the present '87 crew on the ground that most of them had last year or the year before, or at some past time, rowed in the university boat...
...Cornell Gun Club complain that they have received no answer from their challege to Harvard...
...Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody does not know that in the present condition of affairs it is impossible to supply an adequate amount of heated water during the crowded hours of exercise from four to six o'clock in the afternoon. The boilers now in use have not sufficient...
...below 50 per cent.; is it fair that men, who, under the old system, would be entitled to a degree summa cum laude should be denied a degree cum laude? If in the change of regulations a higher standard had been the object of the faculty, we should not complain; but since the faculty, in whose opinion the present standard is sufficiently high, have incidentally raised it by what practically amounts to 20 per cent., we think that it is unreasonable and call for a defence...
...Columbia crew complain that they were obliged to pay one dollar apiece to witness the Harvard-Yale race last June, from their own launch...