Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :- There are but four or five libraries in this country which contain a larger number of books or have better facilities for getting at them than the one connected with this college. Nevertheless I have heard the same complaint repeated again and again that, though the above be true, the general usefulness of the library is seriously hampered by the fact that all the reading done in the library must be during the day time. It is a lamentable fact that from some petty fear of a fire breaking out and destroying the magnificent collection of books...
There is some complaint that the hounds in the hare and hounds runs do not observe the rules of the association, and break for home before the proper time. This is something the mere mention of which ought to be sufficient for a remedy...
...this plans are, that things often occur Wednesday that prevent those who wish, from going on the runs; these interruptions are of course only occasional. there are, however, many fellows who have recitations on Wednesday and are thus prevented from enjoying the runs coming on that day. Some complaint has been heard on this account and it is to be hoped the management can so arrange the runs that all can ejoy them...
...Amherst. Very few men go through collge without making their bow at Smith at least once, and about a fifth call there frequently. A reception in the winter, a concert or two, and a general reception at commencement complete the list of the social attractions at the "Hamp." No complaint is more commonly made in college than the complaint that class spirit is dying out. And there is much to support this belief. True, the lower classes manifest their esprit de corps in rushes, bonfires and like performances. But class spirit as it was twenty or thirty years ago, class...
...repaid for the time spent in training. It is an excellent plan to get into the habit of steady, systematic gymnasium work, such as is required of the candidates, and every man will feel the benefit of this winter's work through the remainder of his college life. The complaint is often made that men will not train for any team unless they feel confident of securing a position upon it. This is only too true, and I would urge the freshmen not to allow this to be said of them, but to start in their first year with...