Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee, it was voted to recommend at the regular meeting of the Association in May some very important changes in the rules...
...graduate has showed a continual tendency to advance, and few now leave the college before they are twenty-three years old. To counteract this tendency, which, although theoretically advantageous, is practically very inconvenient. Time must be saved wherever possible, since the faculties who are most conversant in the subject recommend the shortening of the period of study. We hope to see the necessary action soon taken, so that those who are now in college may reap the benefits, especially since by proper conditions this privilege can be protected from abuse...
...committee recommend that the boat club exercise a little more discretion in their expenditures, limiting them to the money which is actually subscribed. This is the proper attitude without doubt, although the advantages of a launch are so great that the college ought not to fail in giving the requisite means for its running expenses. The gift of the base-ball management, on condition of the raising of the remaining $800, is indeed a great help, and, although removed for some days, it will be news to most of the students, who supposed that the Boat Club was, indeed...
This paragraph in the mayor's address has been the subject of a great deal of speculation to day. It is learned that he was induced to recommend the purchase of the park by facts brought to his knowledge by the trustees of Clark University, which were substantially these: Nearly a year ago Rev. Eli Fay, D. D., of Los Angeles, Cal., made an offer to the American Unitarian Association through Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, to give $600,000 for the endowment of a college for women, to be located somewhere in Massachusetts. Dr. Fay's conditions were...
...last meeting of the Amherst Senate, President Seelye reported that the faculty had agreed with the senate in interpreting the constitution to include under its jurisdiction all undergraduates, whether in regular standing or not. The senate voted to recommend to the college that some fair athletic event be substituted for the class rushes, which have always been attended with more or less serious accidents...