Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many and good, and are perfectly obvious. It will add but slightly to the expenses of the library while it will be of great benefit to the students, especially at this time of the year when the alcoves are filled with men preparing for the finals. We recommend the plan to the careful attention of the authorities...
...making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise to stop at the end of this sentence. For I warn you,- there are no angels, or robbers, or Frenchmen's calculus problems, or earthquakes to recommend my dream to you. It is a very commonplace bit of allegory. For you who are listening I begin...
...understand that such men as Prof. Emerson of the Munroe School of Oratory, Governor Robinson, and others as prominent as they, are soon to lecture here, under the auspices of the Total Abstinence League. We would therefore recommend that these coming lectures be held in Sanders, which we have no doubt would be filled, if only a moderate amount of advertisement be undertaken. We hope the society will consider this suggestion...
Although the many innovations in the method of conducting the required English courses of the senior and junior year's have much to recommend them, the promoters of this scheme seem to have overlooked one fact which has hitherto received attention. We refer to the practice of writing commencement parts, which seniors are requested to follow. In former years a commencement part could be substituted for part of the forensic work of the senior year. At present, however, no account is taken of commencement parts, and no allowance made directly for those who wrote them. It is true that...
...singing of the hymn. Now, if these gentlemen were the visiting overseers, they evidently did not attain the object of their visit, for they were too much taken up with their own devotion to notice how many others were in an equally religious frame of mind. Therefore, we recommend to the overseers that in their visits-if they wish to see how much good the students get out of compulsory chapel, they neither pray, nor sing, nor read. They need not fear that their conduct will be out of place, for, we assure them, they will find plenty of others...