Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Year after year the complaint has been made that there was no mill in which was ground out players for the 'Varsity nine. The class games are good in their way and are a step in the right direction. They are, however, wholly inadequate to meet the needs of the time. What we want is an organization which will be able to take reasonably good material and produce something worthy of the 'Varsity nine. It will be a reserve force, to be called upon in time of emergency, having as its ruling idea the perfecting of promising candidates. Such...
...have two suggestions and a complaint to make in regard to the First Winter meeting, held last Saturday. While the two former can be taken in hand and rejected or accepted by the Athletic Association as it wishes, the latter must be regarded and taken to heart by everyone who was present and is to be present at another meeting...
...regard to the complaint we do not think, but we know that we speak for the college in emphatically denouncing the action of the spectators in the hissing which played a prominent part in some of the sparring bouts. That an excited crowd will blindly follow its sudden impulses, if given a start by one bolder than his fellows we know, but men should control and hide such open bursts of feeling, and must do so it the gentlemanly character of Harvard sports is to be kept up. The hissing once started, it was easy to keep it up without...
...another column there is a complaint about the wretched ventilation of the Library. This complaint is an old one, but for that reason it should be the more quickly answered. The ventilation of the Library is wretched; there is no doubt about that fact. And we think that it is more than it need be, even with the poor facilities for admitting fresh air that are now at its command...
...Loud complaint is heard on all sides about the wretched ventilation of the library. Even the poor facilities for furnishing the reading-room with fresh air, are not taken advantage of and consequently the atmosphere in the library is abominable...