Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...France-Japanese agreement was simply a safeguard for French Indo-China, but owing to the bad French translation of its original form, it may one day give China a pretext for complaint of unjustifiable foreign interference in her affairs. The treaty between Russia and Japan, though drawn up at Portsmouth when the war ended, was not reduced to satisfactory form till the autumn of 1907. Although bearing hardly on Russia, in some respects it ensures peaceful conditions for Russian activities in the Far East...
...places the subject is discussed simply with reference to its bearing upon the success of the team. In one passage Mr. Watts appears to blame the University authorities for insisting on mere formalities and for withholding a player from practice on the "pretext of probation." The terms of this complaint are not very clear, and the grievance, if there is one, might with propriety have been more definitely explained. Mr. Adams's article on how the tickets for the Yale game are distributed will probably satisfy some poignant curiosity...
...state in which India is placed at the present time, Mr. Rutnam said, is the same as that in which America was in relation to England at the time of the Revolution. "Taxation without representation" is the complaint of the Hindoos, but as the present 305,000,000 population of India exceeds the 3,000,000 of this country in colonial times, so does the greatness of the injustice in India exceeds injustice of the American oppression...
...athlete, his interest in his sport, and his interest in his fellows. The question is not whether training tables should be maintained, but whether they should be maintained at their present high cost. If this high cost is due to extravagance, and the extravagance is removed, all cause for complaint should vanish...
...complaint is sometimes heard that there are too many restrictions and regulations governing college athletics. This may be true. What is equally true is that these regulations and restrictions have not been established to fit a theory, but are the results of attempts to check or control actual abuses, actual dangers, and to meet actual emergencies and difficulties, or actual criticisms and demands from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial...