Word: grumbler
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enthusiasm as before. This, however, has nothing to do with the case. We feel that in keeping this matter of support to Captain Waters and his men before the minds of their fellow students we may gradually bring up the whole plane of feeling here so that finally the grumbler and the critic shall find themselves distinctly out of fashion...
...most interesting articles in the New England Magazine for May is that by O. S. Adams on "Some Old Newspapers." That unfortunate species of Harvard student, the grumbler. who reads the DAILY CRIMSON every morning with more or less interest, and then indulges in indiscriminate and uncalled-for vituperation of it, will no doubt find Mr. Adams' description of old time methods of conducting newspapers much to his liking; for at the time of which Mr. Adams wrote, little or no stress was laid upon enterprise. At any rate the general reader will be greatly entertained by the author...