Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Deterioration of eyesight, especially among students, has been an increasing topic of complaint not only in the United States, but in Europe. Mr. Samuel Yorke has an interesting article on the subject in a recent monthly. He says that in Germany, while the number of short-sighted children in the elementary classes is from five to eleven per cent, among the highest classes of the gymnasia it ranges from thirty-five to eighty-eight per cent and of the sid hundred theological students at Tubingen seventy-nine per cent are affected. The same is the case in England, France...
...conclusion we must repeat our complaint which seems to remain unheeded by Mr. Henschel that the programmes are not satisfactory as regards the solidity of the main selection. We have had enough experiment of modern symphonies, and would like to hear a good rendering of a Beethoven symphony before the end of this short series...
...indescribable-it is really unique. But, in all seriousness, men ought to be more careful how they break the rules in this respect, for any such violation results in a great deal of annoyance to their neighbors. Because a man is courteous enough to undergo such an affliction without complaint is no reason for continually tormenting him. We write this, then, in the hope that it may put an end to all such disturbances in future by simply calling attention to them...
There is much complaint among the students at Cornell at the delay in fitting up the gymnasium. The building was completed six months ago, and yet most of the apparatus secured is tied up until the services of a physical instructor can be secured. Dr. Dennet, a practising physician, graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Medical College, was at Cornell last week, and it is probable that his services will be secured...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-There is, compared with the state of things last year, little reason for complaint concerning the board at Memorial, and one is reluctant to find fault at all, when such an improvement has been made. But when, inevitably, one morning in each week, the only meats provided are those ever welcome delicacies, liver and bacon and sausage, some who do not relish such dishes must either breakfast on bread and butter and sweet potatoes, or resort to the convenient, but for some expensive, order slip. If the writer did not know that others besides himself were incommoded...