Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ocean," and he paints in a graphic manner the glory and honor which we shall reap by winning the regular university race, and then the race with "the famous university crews of Europe." We agree with him that it would be a neat thing to do, and we recommend it to the consideration of our crew. But unfortunately this castle in the air is severely shaken by the removal of the foundation stone in the shape of the three men from last year's crew, whom he supposes us to have. That by hard work we can enter a crew...
...would recommend that an organization for the purpose of drill according to the latest United States tactics be forthwith established, open to all members of the University, the attendance at the meetings of which shall be purely voluntary, subject only to self-imposed laws...
...importance of the studies that have been so disregarded; to advise those who have rushed at lightning speed through the pages of Alden and of Fawcett to pass some of their leisure moments in going over the same path once more, with less expedition and more care; to recommend to their attention the seventh and eighth courses of elective philosophy; nor to suggest to the students who have not yet taken up these subjects the propriety of studying them with attention...
...direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called "The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice," or "The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates," ought to be established before we become too wedded to our rut. I should recommend that the active members of this society should be undergraduates alone, but I think, at the same time, that it will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership - in short, a shingle - might...
...Hood, that "the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise." I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of "The Ignorance Club of Harvard College." This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added to, if we patiently listen to the announcement that the requirements for a degree will advance first from 33 1/3 per cent...