Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...football captain. Mr. Sears, captain of the 'varsity eleven, has kindly offered to take charge of the candidates for the freshman team and see to it that they are thoroughly trained. Then the team, after it has been chosen, will select its own captain. The scheme has much to recommend it. The advantages to the candidates in having the personal supervision and advice of Mr. Sears are apparent. There is always, necessarily, more or less time lost in getting the candidates for the freshman football team into regular training, and at this season of the year, when each...
...grass during the entire game. Why we should be forced to pay one dollar for the privilege of seeing a game on our own grounds it is hard to understand. The association might just as well charge one dollar admission and leave all the seats unreserved. We would strongly recommend a return to the old system of having three or four sections unreserved. By doing this, the base-ball management will escape the maledictions of the students and will still have enough in its treasury to buy its blazers, bate and balls. The action of the management on Saturday...
...brief history of the event to which the poem refers. In addition to the lays. a few of Macauley's shorter poems have been appended, such as the "Battle of Ivory," the "Armada" and others. To those who love the ring of Macauley's verse, we cannot recommend a better book. [The Knickerbocker Press, G. P. Putnam's Sons. Price...
Among the books lately published in the series of English History from Contemporary Writers, Senior de Mountfort and His Cause is one of the most interesting. This edition of historial subjects is a very happy idea and cannot fail to recommend itself to students interested in this branch of study. Such publications admit of a more elaborate and specific study of the details of the occurrence of early English history, and are therefore necessarily of value to the reading world. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York...
...writings, humorous and otherwise, of several of the best known authors, and there is no trace of the cheap literature which some readers make use of to amuse their audiences. The book is tastefully bound and is as well an ornament as a real companion. We heartily recommend this little volume to all, not only as of interest in itself, but as a fitting souvenir of pleasant evenings spent with Mr. Riddle...