Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unable to play in that position. On the other hand he is considered not good enough for the 'Varsity, and so he is unable to play at all. The distinction which has been made in this case seems to be one that cannot be maintained without arousing much complaint and questioning. The men who are substitutes on the 'Varsity nine ought to know, and all others should be allowed to play on their class nines...
...regular as clock-work. When the instant arrives, click goes the machinery and down falls the blow. So it is with our annually recurring complaints. Spring puts in an appearance, and with it must come its appropriate complaint. But you will say when you hear this particular complaint, "Oh that is the old one of 'keep off the grass!' " So it is. But why do we utter again the time-worn and useless cry? Truly, only because we think it has neither of these two qualities. Time-worn it may seem to some, however, but thereby only the more...
...Complaint is made at Cornell that some of the professors make a practice of continuing their lectures five or ten minutes after the hour has expired...
Examination of the complaint box in the Harvard CRIMSON office shows but three against the new marking system to twenty or thirty a year ago. - Princetonian...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The library authorities are so careful to secure the best current magazines for the reading-room, that a complaint in this direction almost needs an apology accompanying it. But it seems to me, that an oversight has been made in their failure to provide a copy of the "Forum," a new but excellent magazine, with a list of contributors of high repute. Several persons have suggested, according to the regulation, that this periodical be put on the shelves, but, for some reason best known to the authorities themselves, their suggestions have as yet been unheeded...