Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...public examinations, whilst others who had already engaged themselves to take part in the forthcoming competition of the London Athletic Club vs. the New York Athletic Club were not prepared to go to America in July and also in September. You will see that our only course was to suggest to you an autumn meeting, which may come before or come after the fixture already agreed upon between the London Athletic Club and the New York Athletic Club, as may hereafter be deemed best, and we send a challenge subject to all the preliminaries being satisfactorily arranged...
...today the various forms of what may be called body service have come to be the mark of social inferiority. The proposition is now made that this distinction be entirely ignored: that men receive as a matter of course from equals, the services which in the nature of things suggest inferiority...
This vote was communicated to the Corporation who have lately replied that in their opinion the appointment of a standing advisory committee, such as the overseers suggest, would be unwise. The reasons upon which the corporation bases its refusal to accede to the recommendation of the alumni are understood to be that many questions beside that of art have to be considered in connection with the erection of new buildings; that the practical and utilitarian aspects of the matter are usually paramount, while the question of art is generally of the least importance; and that the corporation cannot delegate...
...known above the life of Aristophanes. Born in 444 B. C., he wrote his first play at the age of seventeen. He continued to write for forty years. Of his comedies eleven are extant besides fragments of thirty-three others. His plays are purely fanciful, as their names suggest. They contain lampoons upon the public men of the day which are sometimes bitter and always witty...
...Columbia Fencing Club has accepted May 4 as the date for the fencing match with Harvard. They suggest also that white costumes be worn instead of the black velvet that was worn last year. The judges will be appointed by the Racquet and Tennis Club, under whose auspices the match is to take place...