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...behalf of this department, I should like to thank you for the interest expressed in your editorial of October 5," Comp. Lit. Complaint." Nothing would please us better than to be able to meet this very amiable complaint by enlarging the number of our undergraduate courses. And your editorialist seems to grasp very well the circumstance that would hinder such enlargement--the fact that we are really a coordinating agency, staffed through the cooperation of various departments, which quite naturally have their own demands to meet first...
When a patient walks into a doctor's office with the vague complaint, "I've got a pain in my back," the success or failure of medical treatment often depends on the doctor's first reaction. If he begins by looking past the patient, ignoring his pain and trying to find an interesting disease process, it is probably the fault of his early training. Most medical textbooks are little better than elaborate descriptions of diseases; they consider the patient only incidentally as a vehicle of disease, and his pain only as an aid in diagnosis...
...exception to ruling, if it ever has to be enforced, will probably allow extra bookcases, supplied either by the University or the student. A primary complaint from residents has been the lack of bookspace...
...theatrical future is a promising mixture of comedies and serious plays. The only complaint right now is the dearth of musical comedies, but we may see a larger proportion of them after December...
...student. In the spring of 1941, a lieutenant colonel, he was given command of a battalion and shipped off with three other Marine battalions to Iceland. The browned-off marines in Iceland solemnly assessed the place as the "sinkhole of the world," but there was never a word of complaint in Smith's letters to his family...