Word: complains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...crew would be removed. If the single and double sculls were common property, one could be sure of finding a boat in, or, at the worst, of having to wait only a few minutes before one of the number would be returned. A Holworthy man could not then complain that he was paying fifteen dollars for one fourth the accommodations given to a Holyoke member; the trouble of four different organizations would be avoided, and with it the inevitable necessity of continual changes in the limits, if the clubs are to be fairly equal in size...
...even now I think it is an open question whether the grade of food is high enough for men who are leading a sedentary life. I do not intend to trespass on the columns of the Crimson with any detailed complaints, for an opportunity is now given to complain immediately to the Directors; but I want to bring before the Corporation, which reserves the power to interfere in regard to the health of the students, as well as before the students themselves, the question whether our food is sufficiently nourishing...
...exhibition for money be given in public by the students, without leave of the Faculty." It will be seen that this vote is strictly non-committal, and is by no means intended to imply that such exhibitions ever will be allowed; still we no longer have any opportunity to complain that it is a peremptory and complete prohibition...
...necessary, and indeed expedient, to show some regard for the expressed opinion of the alumni. They are expected to take an active interest in the management of the University, and therefore, if a large number of them take the trouble to write to the officers of the College and complain that any action of the undergraduates is unbecoming to their Alma Mater, and should therefore be prohibited, their advice ought to be followed; though in the present case our Faculty perhaps agreed with them entirely...
...shouts out, "Stand by to hoist that Spencer." Thinking he refers to my book, I secrete it in my coat-pocket. Several sailors pull at a rope and a sail goes up. The men utter such discordant cries during the process that I go to the captain and complain. He tells me to telegraph to New York and have them dismissed. I ask him in what part of the ship the telegraph-office is. He stares at me, and says, "Just abaft the donkey engine," and goes away laughing. Wonder what he is laughing at. I see a good many...