Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the class deacons at Yale it was decided to recommend to the Y. M. C. A. the abolishment of the Friday evening University prayer meeting...
...Resolved, that we, the members of the senior class, respectfully urge the faculty to abolish the present system of the allotment of college rooms, and that we recommend the institution of a method giving preference to seniority of college standing...
...magazines and comic papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character of the Biography of Y", or "The Affair of No. 13 Rue Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less...
...thankful for the suggestion given in the communication in another column. The facts to which it calls attention have surely been allowed to be facts only because they were not known to the college at large and the remedy suggested will do doubt recommend itself to every fair-minded...
...since the Society would expect under the new scheme, to make sales to non-members, and to make a profit on its business with them as well as on its business with members. Other methods of dividing profits are possible; e. g. equal division among members, but the directors recommend the method mentioned as being on the whole the fairest...