Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great obstacle, next to that pressure of engagements which seems to burden all college men, is lack of confidence in one's own abilities. "I've never run a boys' club; I don't think I could do it" is the pathetic, hesitating complaint. And although no one denies that the ability to handle a boys' club is a faculty worth cultivating, the natural fear of facing singlehanded a whole troop of noisy, critical, sarcastically impudent youngsters is not pleasant when viewed from the comfort of an arm-chair. However, victories are not won in arm-chairs; and the test...
Year after year in the two or three weeks previous to the Easter recess the men in the University living at a distance from Cambridge raise a complaint concerning the regulation preventing the same early departure at Easter as is allowed at Christmas. On the surface there is an apparent partiality in this rule. At Christmas the men from St. Louis, Chicago, and further west, are allowed to leave Cambridge in time to reach home by mid-night before the first day of vacation. But at Easter, owing to the rule now in force, such men are compelled to remain...
...complaint that the "point system" was an unfair test of candidates for admission was certainly well founded. The new system will make it possible for the graduate of any secondary school which maintains a sufficiently high standard of work and includes Latin in its curriculum to meet the examination on an equal footing with a graduate of an admitted Harvard fitting school. Each school may therefore adopt a curriculum fitted to the needs of those not expecting to take college examinations, in fact, with the qualifications mentioned, any curriculum it sees fit, and still be as much a Harvard preparatory...
...resulting from this practice interfere with efficient instruction. A vacation which began for everyone four days before Christmas and ended four days after New Year's would render College work no less effective and remove for a constantly increasing number of students from a distance a just cause of complaint...
...that the Polo Club now has. The life of that organization can be terminated easily and quietly by its past members; and if they do not meet the facts, either by public proof that the Polo Club's reputation is undeserved, or by doing away with the grounds for complaint, they are responsible for a great injury to the younger members of the club and to the University as a whole...