Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social cross-section is to be concentrated upon, the Houses should be made as attractive as possible to the maximum number of groups. It has been the most constant complaint, coming strangely enough from both sides, that the men from Eton and Harrow by their yearly desertion deal the most telling blow to the whole House plan. In the majority of cases this exodus could be prevented by a more elastic system of admissions. Arrangements should be made, if necessary by shifting about the present occupants, so that each year a great number of neighboring vacancies would occur. Houses should...
...Diego, Calif., plump, henna-haired Mrs- America Will Grant, widow of Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., sat down on a settee which came from the White House when her father-in-law was the 18th U. S. President, told newshawks of a complaint she has lodged in court against the owners of San Diego's 27-year-old U. S. Grant Hotel, once owned by her husband. Having lived in the hotel rent-free for years, penurious Mrs. Grant was recently ordered to pay $350 a month rent, restrict her use of hotel service to $25 a week. Grumbled...
...light was shed last night upon the Lampoon flag-hoisting case when a statement was issued by Dean Hanford. Dean Hanford said that so far no official complaint had been received from Washington as a result of the raising of the red flag upon the Supreme Court staff. The statement came as a result of an investigation into the Lampoon Supreme Court case and is: "Following the University's usual policy, no statement concerning disciplinary action on undergraduates will be made...
...move to present a better comprehensive view of German culture takes the shape of a survey course in Literature, German 1, and new courses by Professor Nolte and Dr. Potter in the eighteenth century and the cultural background of Renaissance and Reformation. This may help to eradicate the common complaint of concentrators that they get bogged down in laborious translation work...
...Longtime complaint against the inadequate services of Harvard's music library is reaching effervescence this week as students in music circulate among all their fellow members in the Department a petition urging the University to take the situation once and for all in hand...