Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proud of them. Especially creditable is this victory from the fact that the nine played on strange grounds - which is always more or less trying - and had not such strong support from their classmates as did their adversaries, that is, in point of numbers; for certainly they cannot complain of indifference or lack of enthusiasm on the part of the twenty or thirty men who followed their fortunes, and shared their triumph. We can only commiserate the men who, having nothing to interfere with their going to New Haven, save a miserable lack of confidence in the nine, wilfully remained...
...noble families. They would discuss and damn the faults and disagreeable occurrences en famille, but out in the world every member would fight to the death for the honor of the family name. Noblesse oblige. Of course we have wrongs which must be righted, and grievances to complain of. We call the athletic directors hard names because they interfere with our hearts, and the same to college fathers because they interfere with our souls. But every man among us knows that Harvard is the only college in the world. Of course he does. And to protect her name...
...liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge, especially the editors of religious journals have bitterly decried, is a good sign. Certainly indifference is worse than either atheism or theism. Theist and atheist alike may well complain...
...best college paper of its kind is certainly an honor to Harvard, and should have the support of all Harvard men who are able to contribute to it either from their pockets or from their brains. We hope that our sister paper will have no reason to complain of lack of support from the college...
...Harvards train in a room where no outsiders are admitted. Yale men complain that everything they do becomes public property too quick. To illustrate this they cite the fact that Harvard's having a professional trainer was not known until a few days before the race...