Word: complainings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manifestly it is unfair and absurd to complain because one or two unusual plans of study fail of realization through the inevitable changes in the courses given but such cases are not exceptional by any means. It should be possible to announce a year or so in advance those definitely to be omitted, and the custom now occasionally followed of announcing courses as given in alternate years could be made a fixed rule. Such procedure might add to the burden, already heavy, of the compilers of information, but the assistance it would contribute would be almost invaluable particularly in these...
...where they might contemplate the beauty and joy of every-day life. They followed different paths. Both were intensely American and both abundantly demonstrated their liberality of mind, their tolerant spirit, and their purpose to help all sorts and conditions of men. They did not find it necessary to complain incessantly about the wrongs of the world in which they lived. They dared to rejoice in the blessings which had been showered upon their day and generation...
...quite all right so far as the individual travelers are concerned. We may assume that they came by the money honestly. Many of them have worked hard and saved carefully for the four. They will find in it much of educational and recreational value. They will enjoy themselves and complain bitterly at the profiteering methods of the innkeepers, the shopkeepers, the restaurant keepers, and the others whom they meet...
With the latest inundation of pink, blue, and yellow cards reinforced by important notices and stamped return envelope directions, there has been a great increase in the ranks of the free-thinking Seniors who complain that it is twice as difficult to leave the University as to enter t--as far as sign-the-dotted-line exercises are concerned. Moreover, it is said that at least four Seniors, last year, became so entangled in the maze of invitations, debutantes and dates, that they found themselves confronted at the beginning of Commencement Week by three girls apiece--each expecting...
...course there is a great difference of opinion as to the value of a college education to one in politics. For instance I have known some people to complain because there were too many lawyers in politics. And then again from other sources has come the cry that there are not enough lawyers. I recall numerous cases where men whom I have appointed on legislative committeees have come to me asking to have a lawyer put on their committee with them. And I have had to reply to them, 'I can't give you a lawyer. I have...