Word: complains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...guide for outside reading, but also because there are some things which he says which it is impossible to find elsewhere, or, if to be found at all, only after toilsome research. If the disagreeableness of note-taking were the only drawback, we would have little to complain of; but the great trouble is that while industriously taking down some important portion of thought, and are henceforth unable to profit by the instructor's remarks. If, now, there were in our curriculum a voluntary course in stenography, we might be able to acquire this very useful accomplishment of writing...
...news will be a disappointment to the students who were desirous of seeing some of the old foot ball prodigies once more on the field, but as the move was considered for the best interests of our eleven in their preparation to play Yale on Saturday, nobody ought to complain...
...although by means of the order list the board is made elastic so that members can get $8.00 board if they choose, it has been found impossible to make the service elastic. They can't put waiters on the order list. So members should remember before they complain about the waiters, that $4.25 wont pay swell French waiters any more than it will buy porter-house steaks...
...their sports, do better and more intelligent work in practice, and strictly and honorably obey the training laws in both letter and spirit. If this be done and the college shows its appreciation-as it will-of the faithful work done, we shall have no more cause to complain of any disgraceful defeat falling on the college...
...freshmen, as usual, complain of the difficulty of the Physics examination...