Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...penalty ordained for absence from prayers will recommend itself to many of the present day. Its leniency, compared with the laws now in force, is remarkable for that...
...more liberal and progressive portion of the board of overseers should have looked with any favor on the plan is certainly indicative of an imminent discussion in the board, before many years, over some proposition for the admission of women to the college itself. The measures employed to recommend such an idea by its advocates have been very insidious and deceiving. The innocent annex may turn out to be an engine of tremendous power. But the present apathy of the students on the question is undoubtedly justified. Possibly they will take a livelier interest in the discussion when the question...
...would recommend to the attention of the Lacrosse Team the tactics employed by the University Foot-ball Eleven in most of their games last fall. Their principal object was to gain as much as possible in the first few minutes of the game before their opponents had time to gauge their strength. With this in view they started out with a brisk, driving game and nearly every time succeeded in demoralizing their opponents and scoring inside of fifteen minutes...
...theoretical grounds that had been previously urged. We do not believe this to be the case. The improvements in the method of conducting, and the changes in the hour for holding, the service have indeed been complete, and most grateful to the college at large. But that these changes recommend the principle of compulsory attendance to the students a whit more, as worthy of support and continuance, is more than doubtful. We do not believe there are any in the college who would favor the establishment of such a system of compulsion if it were not already in rogue...
...ability as a teacher and his scientific reputation. It has been urgently represented to the council that the welfare of biological studies at Cambridge demands that Mr. Balfour's department should be placed on a recognized and less precarious footing, and in this view the council concur. They accordingly recommend that there shall be established in the university a professorship of animal morphology, at a stipend of Pound 300 a year, to terminate with the tenure of office of the first professor elected, unless the university decide that the professorship shall be continued, the professor to be chosen...