Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...urge that the Union and the Forum be united as an honorary club to manage 'Varsity debating, and that the work of training be handed over to class clubs. We are convinced that a new and greater interest can be aroused in debate, and believe that the plan we suggest would in time produce that interest...
...thereby leaving a rather formidable row of empty seats between the preacher and his congregation. The notices on the side doors reserving seats for members of the Faculty, etc., of course apply only to Sunday evening services. There is therefore no necessity for leaving those seats vacant, and we suggest that if the men will sit farther forward it will not only make it much easier to address them, but is will also infuse an air of greater cordiality into the reception accorded to the clergymen who come to us as strangers. The attention may seem trivial but we think...
...would suggest that the officers of the four college classes, institute themselves as a committee, to see what could be done to arrange such a meeting. Let them have a number of prominent speakers present who would be familiar with University Club schemes. Have one man speak on the advantages of Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, another on the practicability of a similar club at Cambridge, and let a third express the feeling of the graduates on the matter, the undergraduates would at intervals express their own feeling). Have the Glee Club present to lead the united College...
...wish, therefore, to suggest to the men who are working hardest for debating that they put it on a class footing with annual inter-class debates...
...conditions this year which put it at a certain disadvantage, and which will make a victory all the more creditable. We sincerely regret it if anything has appeared in this column which can be construed as undervaluing the crew. The sole purpose of the editorial in question was to suggest to Harvard men that it takes more than one year's coaching on a new stroke to make the most of it, and that if the crew should lose this year in a fast race there is every reason to look for a considerable improvement in next year's crew...