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Word: complained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work, and does not profess to be otherwise, but the drudgery and protracted labor which cause many of the stagnant-minded to fight shy of it is one of its greatest values. For this teaches accuracy, alertness, and, perhaps most important of all, that which so many business men complain that college graduates lack--a sense of discipline. Beyond these, the competition places a man in touch with the leaders in the various undergraduate and University activities; and opens to him a glimpse of Harvard as a University--the world of Harvard it may be called, of which undergraduate life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEWS COMPETITION. | 2/11/1914 | See Source »

...first of these was from Economics 9 which is being conducted in New Lecture Hall. Men on the outskirts of the audience, being fairly well in the open, have not had cause to complain; but men in the lower seats nearer the centre of the room have found the air stuffy and disagreeable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VENTILATION AGAIN. | 11/14/1913 | See Source »

...watched it known that Harvard was fortunate in winning at all. The Princeton team is one of the very strongest of the year--powerful, aggressive, and versatile--and discontented undergraduate who watched a scoreboard or read a newspaper account know not whereof they speak when they complain of the low score. The Harvard players deserve congratulations for mastering such remarkable opponents. The meagerness of the victory only demonstrates what the keenest critics have said from the beginning; namely, that the team's pathway to the championship has not an advance lining of roses, and that the overwhelming undergraduate assurance, testified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRINCETON GAME. | 11/10/1913 | See Source »

...professors who complain that they have not time for the enduring works of scholarship because of official functions and to students who assert, with perfect sincerity, that other duties keep them from thorough work on theses and longer reports, there has been afforded a striking verification of the old but significant adage that he who will can find time for any task; the busiest man is usually the one who finds it possible to do the extra tasks. Amid the work of managing the business of collegiate life it should be as possible as it is desirable to accomplish some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENDURING WORKS. | 10/14/1913 | See Source »

...ignored is that for the future business man there are opportunities for the exercise and testing of business abilities. They pass by unnoticed. Here is a case crying for a man of administrative skill who has time to devote to its management. And still undergraduates and outsiders complain that there is no opportunity for the man of a practical turn to exercise his faculties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROFESSION OF BUSINESS | 6/7/1913 | See Source »

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