Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...complaint shall be at that time reported...
...final selection of men to attend the Plattsburg camp has aroused some complaint, most of it apparently coming from men outside the University. In any game of life, foolish or real, there are always some among the losers to complain; although in most men the spirit of Saxon fairness is strong enough that they may bear defeat like gentlemen...
...sounded often and loudly, that the spirit of Harvard is undemocratic. Without doubt there is some justness in the complaint. And without doubt it is based really on narrowness of judgment. In no place where men have learned to differentiate between man and man and the most primitive tribes have learned that sort of selection--are all beings equally regarded and equally admired by their fellows. In any social scheme where relations become more complex there is liable to be error of judgment. Men place stress on external appearances, they judge others by their possessions, or some fancied distinctiveness...
...correspondent of the CRIMSON, on the morning of the military training ballot, found cause for complaint in the fact that there had been no previous discussion of the question. We regret no less than he that, due to the suddenness with which the issue was presented, such discussion was impossible. There were only four days between the receipt of the first dispatch from Washington and the date set for the testimony of the delegates sent by the various colleges. Obviously, then, there was no time for wide debating on the subject. The CRIMSON'S stand was determined at a meeting...
...courses, but a large number of the state institutions of the West have found them an admirable method of obtaining popular support. When Columbia finally adopts them and puts them of the same non-money making plane as the rest of its extension courses, there will be no great complaint of any breach of academic etiquette, nor should there be. --Boston Transcript...