Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Much well-grounded complaint is heard in regard to the amount of work required in History 13. This course, in previous years, has been noted as unduly hard and exacting. It has required more hours of work than the average course, to do the required reading, not to mention the general outside work which all ambitious students wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours...
Another cause of complaint is the "special reports." The student feels that he is compelled to spend a considerable amount of time in obtaining a piece of information practically useless, at the expense of more important work. Yet if this point of the work is not done, he is given a maximum of 75 per cent., no matter how well he may do the rest of the work. The importance of the course and the necessity of doing good work in it, are recognized by all. The energy and ability of the instructor is also appreciated. Those who have elected...
...James's Gazette says that tennis elbow is a common complaint, like scribbler's palsy. Skilled sufferers say that it lasts a year or two. It is an exaggerated lame elbow from tennis playing...
...Great complaint is made that books are taken from the Scientific School library and not returned...
...gentleman, and such I presume, these men consider themselves and wish us to consider them, to express themselves in public in such strong, not to say coarse language. Let there be more care by the captains to restrain themselves and their men in the near future and no more complaint need be heard...