Word: grumbler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...daily college journalism by two such estimable companions. We are pleased, too, to notice that the Ocrnell Era has donned the garb of a Harvard publication. It is a delicate compliment to old Mother Advocate, and may help, when it is known, to still the croaking of some chronic grumbler about the college papers here in Cambridge...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I was not born a grumbler, but I am in a fair way to become one. I am not very much more sensitive to a lack of comfort than my fellow beings, but I have endured, during the past two months, such great discomfort, that I must trespass upon your space a little to air my grievances. Imprimis. I take Pol. Econ. IV which recites in Massachusetts. I believe you have published a previous complaint about the absence of shades on the windows in that building, and I wish to reiterate...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - While not wishing to seem a grumbler on principle, I think a word against the practice, too common in our English department, of tediously dwelling on the life of an author and rehearsing all the small talk about his actions, might be well-timed; especially, when this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from...
Students are proverbial grumblers. They may be rated dull by their companions, or they may startle the college world by their brilliancy, but all have a recognized ability to find fault. It is not this spirit of mere growling, however, that is at the root of the present dissatisfaction with our marking system. There are evils in that department that justify a more earnest and rational remonstrance than that of the college grumbler...
...efforts on their behalf; and fear of publicity, fear of the enthusiasm of indignation, fear of "bad form," forsooth. What is left for me henceforth? Obscurity only. After my services of so many centuries "for the public good," to be thus silently contemned is too much. To be called "grumbler," "fault-finder," and a "thing," is more than even the flesh and blood of so antiquated a creature as myself can bear...