Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statements that got afloat, I received yesterday a letter from an anxious relative asking about the condition of the man who was "very seriously injured in the rush." Now Yale and Princeton have received the same ill-treatment from the press, but they have not the same grounds for complaint as we, - for the statements which appear in the Boston press are written by Harvard men, while their libels are written by outsiders. I believe that the time has come for putting a stop to this, especially when one Harvard man stoops to make as cowardly a parade of another...
...untimely proceedings; then every man will feel responsible for the general good conduct, and the disorderly spirits, instead of having to evalde the few stray watch men, will find their movements watched by the large body of orderloving students. At other colleges when such liberty has been allowed, no complaint is heard, and it has been found that if students are entrusted with power there is no tendency to abuse it: on the contrary they take pride in showing themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them. Why should not such be the case at Harvard, the college above...
...from attending a regular representation. The presence of the students would prepare the actors for the more important representations later. The high price of the tickets calls for the adoption of some plan of this nature, and if such a plan were carried out it would prevent much possible complaint later...
...university crew is now rowing as follows: 1, Russell; 2, Colony; 3, Storrow; 4, Mumford; 5, Yocum; 6, Brooks; 7, Keyes; stroke, Penrose. Burgess is again disabled with a return of his old complaint, water on the knee...
...Complaint has been abroad of late regarding Sever 11 as a lecture room. This complaint has been due to two causes, the lack of desks or book-rests in the room and the difficulty of hearing the lecturers. The first cause cannot be eradicated, but the evils resulting from it can be avoided by having such sections, as find the extensive taking of notes necessary meet in some other place where there are desks, for example in the lecture room in Dane Hall. The positions that men have to assume in order to take notes in Sever 11 are extremely...