Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduates regard Cine as unfair competition and have petitioned the Corporation for its removal. They fear strangulation of movie entertainment by College organizations. The Ivy Films group is particularly indignant; and as the only organization devoted to the cinema for cinema's sake, they have the clearest right to complain...
...Irma Barnfield has been a missionary's wife too long not to recognize their new South Pacific station, October Island, as a "comedown." But she knows better than to complain. To her husband Sam, so dedicated that he has never consummated his marriage, it is simply another "field that awaits the plow of the Lord...
...broadcast the problem. Individual cases rarely pass beyond the student and the landlady. The victims usually have too much pride to complain openly, and the discriminators--who happily are a minority of the rentors--don't talk about it either. The Housing Office in PBH can infer the difficulty from the fact that colored students return for help time after time, while white students rent the same rooms with no difficulty. Discrimination does exist, and it is a blot on Harvard's generally good record of race relations...
...situation is just as bad in English Literature itself. English concentrators have even more to complain of since, unlike their colleagues in American, they cannot easily enter graduate conference groups. Although there are four full courses there, they are all the basic elementary variety, and the two half-courses offered stop at 1700. Except for Comparative Literature 166 (Modern Novel), the three centuries beyond 1700 are represented only by courses on individuals...
...offered than today. By allowing the number of professors teaching American Literature to dwindle to three or four, the department risked losing several key courses, and the risk become fact this year. If the trouble were simply a matter of visiting professor's sudden illness, we would hesitate to complain. But this looks more like a case of negligence...