Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ordinary good-breeding in the midst of the vulgarity that is so prominent, and we would ask the decent element in the school to make an apology, as public as the insult, in order that they may partially redeem the good name of their school. Hereafter, we would recommend that no Harvard team play with the students of Phillips Academy, Andover...
Thus there seem to be two distinct advantages which would recommend the formation of state clubs to college students; -the opportunity of meeting one another socially, and the opportunity of increasing at the same time the functions of their respective universities...
...mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced undergraduate which is intuitively apprehended by a green and gray professor. It is exasperating to be told that you must not learn athletics of an athlete, and that the faculty is liable to recommend to you, as an instructor in that department, a most worthy Christian gentleman, a friend of one of the trustees, whose health has broken down under the cares of a country parish. Still, this result would, we think, be more surely averted if the undergraduates would put the faculty on honor...
...with evils that demand consideration. Some of these evils have already begun to make themselves manifest in the practice of college sports. With a view to correcting them and of making athletic exercises an aid instead of a hindrance to the cause of education, the Inter-collegiate Athletic Conference recommend the adoption of the following resolutions...
...President!" or from any peculiar expectation, but rather from thoughtlessness. And on the whole we are inclined to think that any thoughtlessness which leads a man into the practice of whittling everything in his neighborhood is open to considerable objection; and so we would recommend that this practice be given up here and allowed to join its companions in the land of tradition...