Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large amount of time given to athletics at Eton, and how study was secondary to sport, and so on in the same strain that we have so often heard. One particularly severe article appeared in the Edinborough Review, criticising harshly the condition of affairs at Eton. However, cause for complaint, if it ever existed, has, we believe, now disappeared...
...very near the referee, and on such a large boat as a steam tug the officer in question cannot easily move around among the boats, but must lie moored at the pier until the race is started. In former years there has always been more or less complaint about both on the part of referees and crews. Yesterday's trouble was only a repetition of this old rule. Today, we hope, will see the remedy. The managers of the boat club have placed the university steam launch, the "'67," at the disposal of the referee, and a better understanding between...
...study political economy next year for the first time, and for those who are debating whether, after taking a preliminary course, they will pursue the subject further. It is intended to be supplementary to the brief outline information contained in the elective pamphlet. Hitherto, there has always been a complaint that this pamphlet is too small. How to remedy this defect has been the question. Men really ought to get more idea of the courses, which they choose than they can obtain from the regular pamphlet. Last year, the department of political economy, with considerable enterprise, made up a supplementary...
...base ball and crew management makes complaint that those organizations have not received the necessary support from the college in the way of subscriptions. Many men who have subscribed have as yet failed to pay, while the amount subscribed is much smaller than it has been in the pas. -We fear that this complaint will be echoed by almost every organization in college. The college seems to show its desire that Harvard should be represented by newspapers as well as by athletics in the most inexpensive way. It seems to be taken for granted that the nine and crew will...
...heats. In 1883 the first and second mile in the five mile tricycle championships had to run four heats, i. e., 20 miles during an afternoon. In one of these heats the record was broken and three out of the four were fast. There was no complaint that the best man didn't win. Staying power must be taken into account, and he is the best man who has combined most stay and most speed...