Word: recommendation
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...open your columns for the discussion of political or controversial questions. I have no such purpose, but as a recent issue of the CRIMSON contains a report of the addresses delivered before the Union by the Boer delegates, on the subject of the South African war, I would recommend through you to the management of the Union, the advisability, in the interest of truth and fair play, of securing some competent speaker to present the other side of the case. If this idea seems, for any reason, to be impracticable, I would suggest that those who listened to Messrs. Muller...
...Green and "Requiem," by Warren Seymour Archibald. The first of these has the ring of true poetry; in imagery it is unconventional and impressive, in wording dignified and strong. "The Song of the Brook," on the contrary, has neither marked originality nor beauty of phrasing to recommend it. Through the "Requiem"-on the death of President McKinley-runs sincerity of though, but, unfortunately, it is incorporated into a curious jogging, jingling rhythm mor eappropriate to a description of a sleigh-ride, for instance, than to a poem on a serious and dignified subject. "English Light Verse of the Nineteenth Century...
...escape the necessity of a fixed fee of ten dollars, which would undoubtedly bear hard on many of the poorer members. The larger the membership is, the lower will be the annual dues. In spite of the apparent unfairness, of exempting the graduates from this second payment, the committee recommend this in view of the much smaller use that most of them will make of the building, and also in view of the greater trouble and expense in collecting such dues from people outside of Cambridge. The committee recommend the following: (1) Graduates residing within twenty-five miles of Cambridge...
...regard to life membership, the committee wish to recommend: First, that the dues of graduates (and officers of instruction and government) as life members be fixed at fifty dollars; those of students, at seventy-five dollars. It is to be remembered that the great majority of the graduate life members will make but very occasional use of their privileges. It is hoped, on the other hand, that the custom may become common for newly arrived students to obtain life membership at once. Second, that the money received from life memberships be applied to the permanent expenses of the Union...
...recommend that the sale of season tickets to the games continue as at present, that the allotment of seats for the important games be made in the following order of precedence...