Word: complained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have all heard a great deal about southern courtesy and hospitality. Saturday gave a strong proof of the former. We hope that the Virginians cannot complain of the University's standard in the latter. Games played, and visits made and received, in the spirit of last Saturday foster that friendly understanding between Harvard and the universities of the South which has been so encouraging a feature of recent athletics...
These changes were only a small beginning of what needed to be done. To the best of our knowledge they are eminently moderate, practicable and desirable. And yet the Faculty declined to enact them. No one could complain of too cursory and inadequate consideration of the subject, for it has been before the Faculty during a whole month. The students have a natural wish to be shown the faults in these two proposals. Why did the Faculty reject them? C. H. SMITH...
...course, so unusual an experiment has had its critics. For instance, some think the accommodations too uniform; some complain that it will be a hardship on the very poor boys, who will no longer be able to shrink into remote quarters and hide their poverty. The answer to this is that the poor boy may learn in the cheerful air of comradeship, which should prevail here, that poverty implies no disgrace and is nothing to apologize for. To us the criticisms are hardly worth considering in comparison with the high aim, the democratic results, certain to be achieved...
...weather next week will be extremely kind. Snow on the sixteenth of April demands a week of balmy spring to balance. There is even a possibility of its being so warm that the pathetic sprigs which comprise The Yard Beautiful will live. So there is little cause to complain. What if we are cheated out of a lawful holiday on April nineteenth...
...second place, I should like to complain of the difficulty which I have encountered in getting a corps of ushers on whom I could depend. It may have been due to may own inability to find the right men; but I am inclined to think that the fault is not wholly that. A surprising fact is that the most dependable ushers--indeed, those who are most ready to assume the cares of ushering--are the men who take the least active interest in the religious activities of the University. This is a case in which change may well begin...