Word: complains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place for dwelling on individual merits; it is enough to say that the interest of the audience did not flag during the entire declamation, and that several times much enthusiasm was shown. The audience was much larger than that of last year, and we certainly cannot complain that people will not come to hear good speaking. The speakers could not have wished for listeners more sympathetic or better able to appreciate the fine points they made...
...always sorry to complain of our well-managed library, but it has one regulation in force for which there seems to be no good reason. When a student finds a book out, he is allowed to put down his name for it, and when it is returned to the library he is notified, and the book is reserved for him. This privilege is not allowed him in the case of novels, on what ground we cannot conceive, unless it be that novels are not worth reserving; and it is to this restriction that we refer. The idea that novels...
...very low mark. Where the system of taking off so much for each mistake is followed, a man is marked, not on what he does, but on what he fails to do. In courses where marking by the "curve system" is in vogue, we cannot of course complain, as that system is said to be "absolutely infallible." However, when we hear of a man whose mark was something like minus 18 on the mid-years, rated, on a subsequent consultation of the "curve," at nearly plus 40, we begin to fear that even equations and curves may err. We trust...
THIS complaint is not of the marking system in general, only of the particular phase of it that appears in German 7. We do not complain that it is carelessly executed; on the contrary, the instructor takes more pains to examine the books carefully and justly, according to his light, than can be demanded of any one. It is the system that is wrong, and radically...
...heaven! Of what do I complain...