Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greater extent than in most colleges. The principle of having teams enough for everyone who has the ability to make them is an excellent one; it is the best way to bring the greatest athletic good to the greatest number. However, the minor sports occasionally have a complaint to make about the support given them, especially in the way of finances. The golf team is the latest organization to want its athletic budget increased; it seems that the present appropriation does not pay the necessary expenses of the team, and the deficit must be made up by the members...
...followers in the University cannot expect the support a more popular sport receives, it has a right to expect that a reasonable share of its necessary expenses will be paid by the institution it represents. Golf comes under this head; the team has made a creditable showing and its complaint is not without justification...
...Class Day tickets that were assigned on the first and second applications have been mailed, and any man who finds an error in the filling of his application should make a complaint to the Class Day Committee as soon as possible. The chairman, W. P. Willetts '14, will hold office hours in Holworthy 16 daily, except Saturdays, from 2 to 2.45 o'clock...
...Faculty, a conservatism in teaching, due to the subsidies of the College. He can be refuted only by pointing out the actual well-known liberalism of Harvard University. Both in politics and philosophy its freedom and extreme liberalism, rather than any conservatism, have long been the only cause of complaint. The names of Lowell and Emerson in the past are well matched today by those of Lowell and Eliot, of James and Santayana, of Taussig and Hart. It cannot be denied that intellectual restraint does exist in many colleges. That it does not exist at Harvard...
This year work has been carried on quietly by a number of men interested, with the idea that if once fair treatment for the newspapers were secured, the newspapers would reciprocate. There is no doubt that they have had cause for complaint. At times they have been treated by the University or its members with that condescension which railroads were wont to assume toward the public not long ago; and they have turned to it for satisfaction by means of exaggerated stories. These are the days when publicity is the acknowledged course for railroads and big business; they are also...