Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Another fragment, number 2219, is a complaint from a weaver of Oxyrhynchus, to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Pasion, because Apoliophanes, a tax-collector, had extorted sixteen drachmae from...
...that we might honor the men who while striving to save the Union after year, the number of their comrades grows less; yet the thought awakened by the remembrance of deeds become more precious with succeeding Memorial Day. We can see more clearly the sacrifices the made without complaint, to fee deeply the grand lesson taught by hall. The names which are carved on the walls deserve greater honor than ever be rendered to them; but such our tribute is, we give it gladly and from full hearts...
First, as to the complaint that the steward's salary has been raised. The present steward agreed to take up the work at Randall Hall, at the same salary paid by the Foxcroft Club, until the membership of the new Association should be known, when a just salary could be determined. About a month ago the running of the Association had reached a fairly fixed state; the membership, the receipts, the expenditures, had all increased to more than two times the Foxcroft amounts. The Board of Directors therefore voted to place the steward's pay as nearly as possible...
...Memorial Hall and the best Boston hotels; that through the vigilance of the steward and the Board of Directors the expenses have been reduced, since the beginning of the year, one hundred and fifty dollars per week; that in spite of a greatly increased membership there have been fewer complaints of food in the complaint box than ever before; that no prices on the present bill of fare are higher than the prices in previous years, except cereals which cost one cent more...
...following places: Memorial Hall, Holworthy Hall, Little's Block, and the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets. When one stops to consider that all the dormitories of the Yard, 16 private dormitories, countless lodging houses, and ten club houses are within three minutes of the proposed site, the complaint that the site is out of the way seems groundless. Of course if we could tear down some building in the Yard, and erect the club on its site, the walk to the club would be shortened by almost 100 seconds. Moreover the student could drop in for a minute...