Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...identity of accusers could forever remain a secret from the accused fortunately passed into history along with the Inquisition. It is no more to be countenanced in the communications of today than it is in the courts of the present time. If there exists a just cause for complaint or a worthy suggestion, then it should be made openly, for that which cannot be said except under cloak of anonymity had better remain forever unsaid...
Would it contradict the spirit in which the building was erected to propose that it should form a social link between the students and their instructors? Complaint has been constantly made that the relations between Faculty and undergraduates have not been sufficiently close. Could not the Union be used to improve these relations? This suggestion, however, we make in passing. The point is that something must be done to reconstruct an institution which has been and could still become an agent of much good in the community...
...factory that was reputed to be run on a thoroughly efficient and democratic basis. The managing employer, in the spirit of what he considered to be true democracy, had granted his employees the right of access at all times to the "front-office", for the purpose of voicing their complaints. In the course of his investigation, however, the visitor soon learned of several grave industrial abuses, to correct which no discoverable attempt had ever been made. Upon inquiring of the owner the meaning of this apparent inconsistency, the latter replied, "How was I to know that these conditions existed...
...England as in America, there has been complaint of lethargy in ship-building. A valuable result of the frank statement as to submarines and ships lately made in the House of Commons by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Geddes, has been the centering of public opinion and official effort on the speeding up of ship-building. It may well have the like effect in this country. This is a case where clear knowledge of the facts is essential to the right prosecution of war work...
...instance, Harvard were in any least iota "literally robbing her students" (!!!), there would be some evidence thereof. And it is well known that any member of the University, from the oldest professor to the youngest Freshman would find the present College Administration open-minded and eager to consider his complaint, and energetic to remedy the evil. If my own experience is significant, and it can hardly be other, our present administrative officers are perhaps without exception beyond reproach in point of open-mindedness, integrity, intelligence and zeal. And then in the second place, we ought to feel and carefully...