Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major complaint is that the tutorial bibliography, a list of books for which undergraduates are held responsible on general examinations, has become too rigid a guide for students. Many members of the Department feel that students only cover the necessary sections of the bibliography, and never develop special interests, either independently or in tutorial...
...I.B.C. controls most of the country's biggest fight arenas from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to the Chicago Stadium and Detroit's Olympia Arena. It holds exclusive contracts with almost all the top fighters. During the period of the Government's complaint (1949-53), it controlled the promotion of 36 of the 44 U.S.-staged championship fights. In their insistence on cornering championship bouts, concluded Judge Ryan, Norris and his pals "engaged in a combination and conspiracy . . . and were parties to contracts, agreements, arrangements and understandings in unreasonable restraint of [interstate commerce...
...away much of the time working for the government on the war effort, Shanks gradually became the company's acting president. Typically, one of his first moves was to call his vice presidents together and ask: "All right, now what is our biggest problem?" Everyone had the same complaint: New Jersey taxes. They were levied on the Pru at an annual rate of $5.50 for every $100 surplus in their treasury, far more than New York (where some of its biggest competitors were) and other states charged their companies. It put the Pru in the worst possible competitive position...
...traditional complaint against grades--their psychological effect of continual measuring--is noted here but hardly becomes an important argument. Some personalities are certainly injured here when grades become ends in themselves, and the Psychiatric Service offers disturbing reports of insecure students stealing notes and telephoning top students early in the morning to lower their efficiency for that day's exam...
...large the student's complaint is that grades are inconsistent and inaccurate, and that they do not measure the most important parts of a course. This student frankly does not care to read everything on a reading list with the same degree of attention, and he resents the College's willingness to single him out as less educated than others on this account...