Word: complains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very edifying, but every attention shown them is a slight incentive to greater effort. We have not the means of going as far in the demonstration of our support as we could wish, but that is no argument against showing such interest as we can. The crew might justly complain of lack of enthusiasm shown at present by the college...
...order that the college may not complain of being unable to see the crew row, Capt. Hammond agrees to row the crew three or four times up and down in front of the boat-house every day at five, provided there are half a dozen men there to see it, and it is to be hoped that use will be made of this opportunity to see the crew as it is making its greatest improvements...
...Complain and find fault as you may, you must acknowledge that the modern miss is, after all, a pretty nice institution and one that you wouldn't care to part with. Why grumble at their vanity, you silly fellow, when you are the only one to profit by it! Yours...
...high school; they seem superfluous when the age of a graduating class averages, as with us last year, nearly twenty-four years. In dispensing with such incentives we are but following the plan of German Universities, and apparently neither they nor we have any reason to complain of the effect upon scholarship...
Messrs. Pach and Sargent still complain that the seniors are very dilatory in making their appointments...