Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complaint of a party of Indian trappers, Dr. James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman was haled into court at La Tuque, Que. On vacation last spring he was hunting on his Canadian preserve when he came upon the Indians loaded with fresh skins and living in one of his camps. Furious, he slashed their tents, seized their skins.' threw their provisions into the river. Pleading guilty, Dr. Stillman paid $10 and costs...
...chief practical pleasures of college life. They are living at Harvard, but to all practical intents and purposes they might just as well be living at home. Every student who is admitted to Harvard ought to be entitled to his share of college life, and he has a justified complaint if it is not granted...
Dissatisfied with the facilities offered at Brooks House, where 225 students, ate luncheon daily in crowded quarters, the commuters planned to establish a club similar to the Five-Fifteen Club at M. I. T. and to obtain central headquarters for dancing and other social functions. A complaint was furthermore lodged against the conduct of Brooks House athletics, which the commuters charged was kept in the hands of a few upperclassmen and confined largely to students living in Claverly Hall. The Club proposed to limit its membership to actual commuters and to organize its own teams for competition in intramural athletics...
...American Medical Association, whose censors have made admission to U. S. medical schools exceedingly difficult and graduation from foreign medical schools virtually useless, last week set up a vigorous complaint against U. S. medical schools which are undermining its program for a highly exclusive profession. The A. M. A.'s chief means of forcing medical schools to abide by its high-minded policies is to exclude them from its list of "Approved Medical Schools...
Harvard has been much less concerned with the soul than with the intellect since the year it discarded as its primary function the training of men for the ministry. That was long ago, but one still hears the complaint that we have found it impossible to retain lessons learned at home by example, when other lessons are taught more convincingly by logic. Logic is a fickle mistress, and must be kept in her place. There will always be realms where scepticism is baffled, where science confesses to bewilderment, and in these realms lessons other than those learned in books...