Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...every cherished Harvard custom there is an almost equally cherished complaint. The perennial complaint concerning the Junior Dance again reaches our ears; and the fact that he who is not a member of the Union will be forced to become one at the cost of ten dollars before he can attend the Dance has lost none of its attractiveness as a subject for criticism. The dissatisfied claim that the Dance should be held somewhere else, the membership fee temporarily lowered, or the requirement of membership suspended...
...Interest rates soar and the efficiency of business management falls off on the top of the boom because the offices are too busy to pay attention to details and small wastes. Then there is an increase in long time borrowing, closely followed by a rise of interest and a complaint of tight capital. This in turn leads to a reluctance to make further investments and an increase of demands for short time loans. The last step before the process of liquidation is reached when prospective profits, really the collateral of credit, begin to decrease and there is great danger that...
...Moses, of the University of Wisconsin and previously of Harvard '15, has written an excellent essay on "Civic Spirit and the Harvard Forum." The main theme of his essay is the complaint that so little interest is taken by American students in public affairs. The writer deplores the fact that the class room is the only place where the student concerns himself with public conditions and urges in order to counterbalance this fact that the students at Harvard affiliate themselves with the Forum...
...other complaint came from the instructor in Economics 8, given in Sever 11, where the air became so oppressive that all the windows were thrown open and the men asked to move about the room in hopes of getting some relief, while the lecture was interrupted for a few minutes...
Until a few weeks ago there had been a great deal of complaint about the bad ventilation of Appleton Chapel, particularly on Sunday; but the evil has been removed by the simple expedient of starting the ventilating fans a little early, so that the air is fresh when the audience enters, while the fans are called upon only to keep it fresh as fast as consumed. We should suggest that a similar remedy be called into action in other halls, so that we may have a happy medium between a sleepy stuffiness and a chilly draft...