Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...social converse, and where they can find music, the periodicals, billiards, cafes and similar innocent delights to make college life in New Haven as agreeable and attractive as is possible under the circumstances. The plan seems to us so admirable and even practicable that we are tempted to suggest that a similar one be undertaken at Harvard, especially since such advantageous quarters could probably soon be obtained when the new Law School building is completed and Dane Hall be destined to hear no more the voices of future Choates and Sumners. Of course some skeptic will tell of that much...
Speaking only out from the depths of our youth and inexperience we would suggest to our venerable but dyspeptic contemporary, the Yale Lit., that vituperation and scurrility would better become a journal of less dignity and fewer pretensions than itself. If the Lit. must wail, we presume it is all very proper that it should wail with perfect impunity; but we entreat our dear sister to show a more chivalric spirit, and not to vent its spite upon the weak and unprotected alone...
...gaining ground that extempore speaking can be acquired without much training. It should be remembered that seven years' practice in New England school-houses gave skill to Wendell Phillips, and one of the finest characteristics of Burke's writing comes from life-long habit of extemporaneous speaking. We suggest that those who are now making up their elective for next year consider the Harvard Union debates as among the electives. Would not one evening a fortnight be well spent by those who hereafter intend to make any figure in public life? As English 6 will not be given next year...
...eagerly awaited pleasures of spring time is the singing in the yard by the Glee Club. It seems, though, as if this deservedly popular institution was more chary this spring of their pleasant favors than is their wont. We should like to suggest to the Glee Club-merely suggest, you know-that they give weekly concerts for the remainder of the term...
...would probably discover that this sport is not so difficult as it looks, and, having shaken that coat of "indifference," would raise the college records by livelier competition. Perhaps we may ascribe this neglect to the unavailable manner in which the shot and hammer are stored away. Let us suggest they be exposed to the public view. But this latter objection does not hold in regard to the running long jump, since the sod is always turned on Jarvis. The custom is for men to enter the sports without practice and to make a record worthy of a juvenile athletic...