Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last few years. Now there are at present in the University seven school clubs and each one has a membership sufficiently large to enable it to offer a substantial prize corresponding to that given by the Andover Club without making an appreciable tax upon the individual members. We earnestly recommend this plan to the members of the school clubs and trust that they will at least take it under consideration...
Resolved, That this board recommend the following plan for seating the dining hall during the ensuing year: That the present general tables be retained as such with a maximum permanent attendance of 456 men at 228 seats; that the present club tables be retained as such with a maximum permanent attendance of 15 men at tables of 12 seats, 18 men at tables of 14 seats, and 7 men at tables of 6 seats; that this plan be submitted to a vote of the members of the association, and if such plan be approved by the association it be submitted...
...committee appointed by the Cor-poration (President Eliot and Dr. Walcott), to recommend future arrangements of the Harvard Dinning Association, have sent the following report which was adopted by the Corporation to the president of the association...
...Latin stage and its settings are reproduced, how the Latin music is adapted to modern ears, and with how much expression English students can handle lines written for Roman actors. The curiosity is piqued; the eye and ear are delighted. Is there very much besides in the play to recommend it? Would not another play be doomed, by the nature of the case, to fall flat...
...soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake...