Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...substance of the complaint I can only say that I got my first subscription to the class fund in March, and still found time to see every member of the class before commencement day. I do not think that class secretaries usually begin this part of their work very much before this time. Our fund was a large one, and there is no reason yet why '83's should not be as large...
Hamilton Fish, the president of the board of trustees of Columbia College, makes complaint, in a recent interview, that the claims of Columbia to popular notice in the shape of gifts of money have been overlooked. Mr. Fish says: "Columbia College has only had two gifts in the form of money, and one of them is of no avail yet. * * * There has been an occasional scholarship established; but compare this record with that of Harvard and other large colleges. They are constantly receiving large contributions...
There has been some complaint on the part of members of the Co-operative Society because they are not allowed to get their books after seven o'clock in the evening. It may be a slight inconvenience to a man who happens to come after seven o'clock for the books he has ordered not to be able to get them, but it is a published rule of the society, necessary to the careful and economical conduct of its business, that the cash account shall be made up at 7 P. M. each day. After this, of course, no business...
...also rackets very much curved to make them of use for balls high and to one side, while the straight rackets are for those who are not good at judging the position of the ball, and besides there are all the old styles. We will, in fact, have no complaint to make in regard to rackets for the coming year. Our sole grievance is the wayward ways of the wicked little "mucker...
...Dartmouth bitter complaint is made of the system of excuses for cuts. "If a student is too ill to attend recitation," wails the Dartmouth, "he must crawl up (or get a friend to carry him on a shutter) and inform the professor of the fact, and obtain permission to crawl back...