Word: complains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...continually tempted to complain that the faculty fail to give us one advantage and another which the students of other colleges enjoy. It is, therefore, particularly pleasant to occasionally congratulate ourselves on the points in which we are more favored than others. Most of us take the reading room very much of course, and hardly think to thank the powers that be for the pleasure and profit we derive from it, or realize that even such a well equipped college as Harvard has no such institution. A recent editorial in one of the Harvard papers laments that "While Yale...
Several of the law students complain that the acoustic properties of the lecture rooms in the new Law School are very...
...wear and tear caused by the bringing of seats in from outside is very injurious to the building. I hope it will be clear to you that for these improvements, outside the regular expenses, the association will be in need of money, and that you will not complain if the price of tickets for the gymnasium meetings is kept as high as it has been in former years. I am aware that complaint was made about this matter at the time of the last winter meetings and I think such complaint was not unnatural as the needs of the association...
...decision in his favor. Beyond the number of candidates it is hoped and expected that a large number will show their interest in the eleven and its work by appearing on the field daily to encourage the players. Do not let any of the team have occasion to complain of any lack of support in their hard struggle of the next two months...
...sustained in our efforts by parents and by the public press. In Princeton no student is allowed to contend in any public game without the written permission of his parent or guardian. But there are parents who weakly give their consent to the importunities of their sons, and then complain that we have trained them in idleness. The public press, as a whole, are telling the colleges very plainly that they are going to excess in sports. Let them encourage those colleges that are seeking to lay restraints on the evil. Some colleges are refusing to join in the exertions...