Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While there is undoubted cause for complaint this year, there is also great exaggeration in the statements about the seats. It is to be regretted that tickets have found their way into the hands of the speculators, but I am sure that the number bears an exceedingly small proportion to the total number issued. The accusation that some of the players and coaches have sold their tickets to speculators is probably without foundation. When we consider that undergraduates have all been offered good prices for their tickets, it speaks well for their sense of honor that so few of them...
...strongly of going have remained behind, influenced by conservative advice, that the few who have gone are not always remembered. A great deal has been well said in advising under-graduates to go slow and consider the legitimate motives for enlisting, a great deal has been ill said in complaint and criticism now that the war is on and it is necessary to carry it to a speedy and successful conclusion. In this flood of outspoken and often tactless conservatism, the under-current of enthusiasm is only too apt to be forgotten...
...reference to the complaint that we so often hear,- that Harvard's social conditions interfere with her athletics, let me say that the Harvard undergraduate who captains a team or crew, who does his best, even if defeated,- is honored, and has won a prize that makes a social recognition absolutely paltry...
...editorial in the December issue of the Monthly expresses a complaint felt only too strongly by the readers of our college periodicals. As the writer says, why is it that men insist on choosing subjects with which they have no real sympathy? The result is occasionally creditable it is true, but lacks individuality and a lacquered effect is only too common. At intervals we find a man writing of truly personal experience and with sympathy; his theme may be well worn, but the well telling of it makes an old story new, and after all the best things in literature...
...squad this year has been rather open to attack in this quarter, because the eleven was picked at the beginning of the season. The avowed policy has been to put the most experienced men in, and keep them there until their inferiority was clearly demontrated. Of course the old complaint came, and we regret to notice that it has been a little more obtrusive than usual. Yet one has only to think of the state of the squad today, with two or three candidates being played alternately in each position, and several old players in danger of being ousted...