Word: complains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special committee on admission has come to the obvious conclusions and announced the expected decision. The University "must maintain its traditional policy of freedom from discrimination on the grounds of race or religion." A few critics will complain that the report, with so many additional suggestions, leaves the issue just as much open as ever; far more will notice with disappointment that the committee has stood in evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient...
There is a seething undercurrent of discontent in Lisbon, and it is feared that the nation may be heading for another revolution. (The last one was attempted in 1921.) High cost of living is the principal cause of complaint. Though the workmen are earning good wages, they complain that they have to spend them all on food. The price of bread is said to have increased by 150 per cent, and other foodstuffs have been proportionately advanced...
...requirement of "distribution" is a clause added to the free-elective system to make freedom not only possible but necessary. The men today--and there are many of them--who complain against being obliged to take a science course when they are going to be lawyers, or a literary course when they are going to be scientists, have always had the answer that "it broadens them". Dr. Eliot's remarks now suggest another answer: it gives them a chance to make sure that their first choice is correct, and that they have chosen work in which they can find continued...
...well underway, the youth arose, gazed about, saw his friends had not arrived, sighed heavily, and beckoned with boredom to two fair maids who had just come in. Now it might seem a little rough on those who had arrived early and were rejected, but who am I to complain? Instead of a professor a charming young damsel, albeit her nose was powdered. And the thoughtful youth enjoyed the lecture. In fact he seemed to think it was one of his regular courses, for he started to assemble his hat and coat when he judged the last paragraph had begun...
...anything were needed to refute those occasional critics of the Harvard Glee Club who complain that by going in for first-class music the Club is killing the old college songs, the "Harvard Song Book" would do the trick. Certain graduates have written dismal letters to the "Alumni Bulletin" during the past two or three years, conveying an impression that always until now it has been a major sport for undergraduates to gather in compact groups about a piano of an evening and split the air with "Giniral Grant", but that the Glee Club is spoiling all this...