Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School's highly-competitive numerical grading system will be brought before a student referendum as a result of widespread complaint among third-year...
...undoubtedly true that the specific dollar where administrative expense ends and charity begins can often not be clearly defined. If the drive is to avoid the perennial student complaint that "most of the charity you give goes to pay for the staff's salaries," however, it must select a stopping point which is reasonable for most charities. The Combined Charities can truthfully counter that any arbitrary line will exclude many fine causes. Yet a line must be drawn somewhere, and setting up well-defined criteria to start with is the fairest and most unbiased way to do this...
...psychologists are better equipped to diagnose the complaint than Baltimore's Robert Lindner. He has studied young people as a practicing analyst, as consulting psychologist to Maryland's state prisons as well as to the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Dr. Lindner has reached the startling conclusion that the youth of today is suffering from a severe, collective mental illness. While many parents-and some of Dr. Lindner's own colleagues-will not go along with him all the way, his diagnosis is provocative...
...Charles ("Chip") Bohlen attended a Moscow party celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution after the B-29 was shot down. Again President Eisenhower took a conciliatory position: Bohlen had received only fragmentary news of the attack minutes before leaving for the party, and the President had no complaint against Bohlen's judgment or decision...
Until the time of President Eliot, however, the graduate student led an easy existence. It was a common complaint among the townspeople of Cambridge, that "all a Harvard man had to do for his Master's degree was to pay five dollars and to stay out of jail." This was essentially true--the principal requirements for the degree were merely the maintenance of good character for three years after receiving the A.B., a nominal fee, and participation at the degree-awarding ceremony. The degree, needless to say, carried little academic prestige...