Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While it may seem to the present Class Day Committee that we lay too great stress upon the matter, we can assure them that the abuse is one of long standing, and each year occasions increased complaint. If the practice is still continued we may justly look for a serious deterioration in the character of Class Day and the pleasures which attend it. The greatest care ought to be taken to improve to the best advantage the opportunities afforded but once in a life time to meet so many common friends upon such an occasion...
...moral courage has been attacked. If the attack is justifiable, it seems strange that the faculty should have made a unanimous bona-fide declaration of trust in us. As to our complaint of officiousness, this is a free country If anybody without due authority from the United States, the state, the city, the faculty, or the students, assumes the right to control us, I think that to most people he would seem officious. And now I will try to answer the last charge against us, - that we are afraid of responsibility...
...following "grievance" was recently deposited in the complaint box at Memorial. "To the Directors of the Harvard Dining Association, Gentlemen - For the last month there have been very few girls in the gallery. Please furnish some...
...experienced men in college, who carefully select and thoughtfully word the resolutions. When decided on, the questions are published in the CRIMSON, so that the members may choose with greater deliberation. This is one improvement at least on the "old regime." It is also a notable fact that no complaint has ever been made on the floor of the Union, - the proper place for such expression. Moreover, on only one occasion did a member of the Union propose a fourth question, which, though excellent, the Union rejected, - an evidence certainly of the society's satisfaction with those provided...
...unfortunates who take History 13 and Political Economy 4 are exposed to the glare of a noon-day sun on the back of their heads, till the page before them becomes a blur, and then they either faint, - or stay away. Seriously, this ought to be remedied; the complaint has been made so often before that it should be listened to. Men are constantly in danger of severe headaches if not of actual sunstroke from this cause. The rays of the sun coming on a June day through a pane of glass, falling upon an unprotected head or neck beneath...