Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is but one group of students, in fact, a minority if they exist at all, who have no complaint coming. These are the undergraduates whose activity evokes what University Hall fears most--gross immorality, lurid beadlines, and the demise or desecration of the Good Name. The latest ordinance need not worry these people, for it is only the privilege itself, and not its extent, that concerns them...
...confused with Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson, former president of General Electric, who resigned last March as Director of Defense Mobilization, after a row with Harry Truman, or with Charles E. (for Eben) Wilson, onetime vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. Only common complaint of the Charles E. Wilsons: the mailman often mixed up their dividend checks...
Realignment. In Albuquerque, Mrs. Mary Jean Gonzales asked the district court to set aside her six-year-old divorce because: 1) her husband had not told her that he filed it, 2) she signed a divorce-suit paper thinking she was filing a wife-beating complaint, and 3) she and her husband had since become reconciled and had three children...
Through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, it was the maids not the students who had grounds for complaint. They workeds even days a week, including vacations, under the harsh eye of the janitors. The rounds took six hours or more, starting at eight a.m., and they dared not stop for rest or food lest they be fired. Every Friday they lined up in front of Memorial Hall to wait for their pay, which even in the days of the 37-cent-an-hour minimum wage, never rose above 32 cents...
...question splits easily into problems of policy and execution. With regard to policy, afflicted undergraduates complain that a language requirement is useless, as it takes up time better spent in more exciting fields without the recompense of useful knowledge in return. This complaint is valid, insofar as it points to the absurdity of demanding a thorough knowledge of one foreign language, but that is not the requirement's purpose. All that the College demands is a minimal facility, enough to serve as the foundation on which, if they wish, students can later build a working knowledge. As a compromise between...