Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I noticed in Saturday's issue of the CRIMSON a communication complaining of the negligence of the German department in reserving books in the library. Perhaps it will relieve the writer's mind to hear his complaint is based upon insufficient knowledge of facts...
...ancient. The modern literatures are literatures. It is useless to claim the title of humanities exclusively for the classics. Men are not asked to give up culture for business, but for the sake of business. They are asked to impart culture by a new method, and the complaint is that this new method is of the second rate, while the first method is of the first rate...
Another general complaint made by those who board at Memorial is that they get tired of the sameness of the fare and lose their appetites. The same bill of fare appears every week on the same day and one knows beforehand just what to expect. This could be easily changed and such a variation adds to the relish of their meals. By lessening the number of vegetables served each day a greater variety could be offered without increase of expense. The fish is almost uniformly bad and everybody would be willing to give it up on four days...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- At the Glee Club concert last Friday evening there was a great deal of complaint about the way the programmes were distributed. A great many who came in late were unable to get any, as all of those that had been placed in the seats were taken. It seems that there were enough of them to supply the audience, if some persons who came early had not pocketed an extra one for some friend. In future, cannot some better way be devised for distributing them, than by placing them in the seats where a person can take...
This is the season for our annual complaint about the shortness of the Christmas vacation. It seems extraordinary that the faculty should not yet have opened their eyes to the plain fact that they gain nothing and that the students lose nothing by cutting down the vacation to such very narrow limits. The attendance in the courses during the week before and the week after vacation might seem to be a sufficient proof of how little regard is had by the men for the actual dates of the Christmas recess. But it seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction...