Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...true question is of the reality and validity of religious sentiment. All religious forms are necessarily and confessedly symbolic; they are representative of something other than what their mere outer appearance would suggest; thus it is only the spirit of the heart and soul which gives the Church and Liturgy their true signification. Until the symbols are explained, they serve merely to hide their true meaning. Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall...
...were to be permanent, we should think it unjust to keep general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit, to go beyond which they believe would seriously endanger the social life. For ourselves, we think that it would be unwise even to exceed the proportion of twenty men to fourteen seats...
...most English speaking people, even college graduates, a Latin classic consists of ideas with which he has become familiar in some other form and now recognizes through a clumsy set of symbols. The words do not suggest parts of ideas that unite as they proceed into larger and larger groups, but are mere signs as much as O. K. and C. O. D. That a Latin sentence was really an instrument of thought and expression, saying something directly as it went along, hardly enters their heads. And even a play, in which people have real emotions, talk, make bargains...
...respectfully suggest that the Union and the Wendell Phillips Club give attention to this matter and appoint committees to formulate preliminary plans for some beneficial change; and I submit my plan to the student body at large, which has, unquestionably, a voice in this matter...
...judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...