Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complaint against the conduct of hockey here is not a new one but one which has been in the air for several seasons. One poor season, however, has brought the issue to a head. Followers of Harvard hockey had every right to expect a great showing from this year's sextet. That they were disappointed has led to every sort of criticism of the hockey set-up. The team was a house divided, the team lacked spirit, the team trained at the Ritz and the Copley, the team had forgotten that it represented the Harvard undergraduates. How much of this...
...Committee is honest, then it is not the only body which in the past has found fault with the system of nominations. The complaint is old that the Student Council chooses a Nominating Committee with which it has intimate connections, and that this Committee satisfies the Council by, in turn, nominating it for the class officers. Despite doubts about the intentions of the Committee for Electoral Reform, its objection to the lack of publicity given the Senior Constitution, against which 133 Seniors voted, is certainly valid...
...repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions by holding that the system is "obviously discriminatory" against those put up by petition, since such nominees appear to be "self-seekers." Election results over the last few years have proved this a false complaint, particularly the Council elections...
...rockets with low notes? . . . He also objects to "land of the free" as being too high. Instead of being too high, it is one of the loveliest climaxes ever written to any song. ... I have been a composer for many years, and have never heard as much as one complaint about the high notes of our National Anthem until Mr. Lopez came along...
Despite the feebleness of our lonely voices, tuned to the strains of a lost cause, perhaps the echo of our complaint will resound some day when Harvard tradition does not mean Harvard hypocrisy, and the name of democracy is not defiled by self-perpetuating committees...