Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recently initiated this word "system" must seem a keen bit of sarcasm. The great errors and injuries of the present system are so well known that any consideration of them on our part is unnecessary. We trust, however, that we shall not seem too presumptuous if we venture to suggest a remedy. It certainly requires no great ability to compare the results of established systems with the evils of the vacillating method in use here...
...tumultuous torrent of ungovernable passion, and must be played a l' abandon, and with an unconscious enthusiasm and fervor, as if the musicians were blindly carried along by this torrent of intoxicating sounds. Perhaps this feeling can only be awakened fully when the scenery on the stage helps to suggest the situation...
PEDESTRIANISM.As one means of increasing the athletic interest here, which is at present so far below what it can and ought to be, we suggest to the Athletic Association the plan of instituting Challenge Cups. The offer of two really handsome and valuable cups, one for walking and one for running, would, we think, meet with immediate favor. Any one winning the cup should have his name engraved upon it, each time he won, and, after being won three successive times by the same man, it should become his private property. The distance in each case should be such...
...passed. We hope that the members of the class will give a tolerably detailed account of the way in which they have spent their college life, the societies they have been members of, their connection with athletics, the rooms they have occupied, and, if space is left, we would suggest that every one should append to his life a list of the electives he has taken while in college...
...constant instruction through the eye; pictures and bronzes in the classical and fine arts rooms would be both useful and ornamental ; or at least they could be finished so that pictures and statuary, should the future provide any, would not seem out of place in them. Other suggestions might perhaps be offered, but even if these few are attended to, we think a great deal of good will be done. If we are to have new recitation-rooms, they ought to be made with all the improvements that the art of building has attained and that experience can suggest...