Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often the case that Harvard feels satisfied when it occupies any place but first, whether it be in contests of brains or muscle, still our place gained by the eleven in the inter-collegiate foot-ball games this fall, under the existing circumstances, cannot deserve any complaint and dissatisfaction. Never before have the then leading elevens been more evenly matched and whatever criticisms the play of the victors may have evoked it was plain that by their superior muscular development and combined methods they fairly deserved the place they hold. With the chances apparently against us at the commencement...
...probably will result in no good, but will, on the contrary, do serious harm to the interests of the association. The mistake certainly should not be the cause of a stampede from the hall - such a result would be truly deplorable. It perhaps will deserve an investigation, if serious complaint is made in regard to it. The Advocate will certainly cry out again for Mr. Balch's scalp. If it can get it this time it will certainly deserve it. We doubt...
...Complaint is sometimes made of the small number of men who usually attend any ordinary class meeting, and the usual moral of Harvard indifference is in most cases drawn from this circumstance. It has been suggested that the late practice indulged in by some of the classes of calling meetings merely for the purpose of collecting money and paying off debts is the more important cause of poor attendance at these meetings. Of course this should not have any weight in deterring men from meetings, but, it is claimed, unhappily it does have weight. Perhaps a little more care...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The Glee Club and Pierian Sodality are making a good deal of complaint about the smallness of the audience which attended their recent concert in Sanders Theatre. Their complaint perhaps is just and the unwillingness of many to attend is undoubtedly to be severely censured. But are not these two societies themselves somewhat to blame for their small audiences? To fix the price of admission to their own concerts is undoubtedly their own business, but if the price is fixed too high for the general public can they complain if their audiences are small. It should...
...degree of the sentiments of the college, they might deserve consideration; but, as it is, they are beneath notice. The expressions of the Boston papers, and of individual Harvard students of high standing, show what the true ideas at that institution are, and we have no ground for complaint. - [Yale News.] Will the News name one Harvard student of "high standing" who has put himself on record as approving Yale's play and disapproving Harvard's universal condemnation of it on the field the day of the game. The Boston paper have indeed explained what the true ideas of this...