Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...held the reins of the college could not bear any departure from their ideas of gravity and decorum. All the students in those days had to board in "commons," unless excused by the president. The "commons" at first were very bad and furnished the students plenty of ground for complaint. A regular steward, butler and cook were appointed by the college and a committee was chosen to see that "there be sufficient variety, that the table clothes be clean, and that the students have plates." The tutors were obliged to be in the hall during meal times to see that...
This matter has been a subject of complaint-every year since I have been in college, and it does seem to me that in a matter so trifling, men might exercise a little care and make all the relations in the reading-room more agreeable than they...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :- In the communication in your issue of the 16th, the old complaint about lighting the library at night is brought up; and perhaps it is just as well not to let the matter be forgotten, but at the same time we must not be unreasonable in our demands and complaints. In the first place the danger from fire is great. Gore Hall itself-I do not speak of the wing containing the stack-is anything but fire-proof. It is, perhaps, not generally known, that those apparently substantial columns in the waiting-room are in reality hollow...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :- The complaint made in Wednesday's CRIMSON about the library is one about which every man feels only too strongly. Now that the days are so short, the time which the library can be used is extremely limited. The light in the reading-room is too meagre to admit of reading after half-past four o'clock, and often even earlier on cloudy afternoons. This cuts off an hour and a half from the scanty time allowed under the most favorable circumstances. It is not sufficient, however, to have the whole afternoon; a man is more inclined...
...correspondent of to-day truly remarks, the afternoon is the only time we have for exercise. He might have added that the morning is generally taken up by recitations- or ought to be. This leaves only the evening for uninterrupted, steady work in the library. Particularly is complaint just on the part of those who wish to consult special reserved books. Under existing circumstances they have but little time for such consulation, since the books are necessarily limited to one or, perhaps, two copies, and "first come, first served" is the motto of the library. Consequently those who are really...