Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House cabinet in its final meeting of the year last evening took a definite stand on the much-discussed chapel hour controversy. It was unanimously voted to recommend to the Board of Preachers that an evening service be held in Appleton Chapel at 7 o'clock, but that the regular morning service at 8.45 be continued as well. The supplementary service would be tried for a month, preferably from about October 15 to November 15, with a view toward discovering which hour is more generally acceptable to the undergraduate body. With more or less definite statistics...
President Eliot heartily endorses the plan: "Pending the adoption by the people of the United States of universal military training for able-bodied young men, the Citizens' Military Training Camps will offer to the young men of New England courses on military instruction in their camps this summer. I recommend these courses to all young men-who-wish to prepare themselves for military service in defence of the country against aggression from without or attacks from within, and who propose to aid in realizing, if occasion will offer, the hopes which the American National Army suffered and died for during...
...time has arrived when I feel that I must say something. I am surprised that the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Begg) has the gall to get up before the House of Representatives and not only condone but actually recommend this raid upon the United States Treasury. . . . Nobody ever believed that the money of the taxpayers would be squandered in such a manner as that. . . . What will the people who actually go out and toil say? Do you know that there are people in the United States who start early in the morning and work all day long for a dollar...
...recommendation of the Minor Sports Council, the Student Council voted to recommend to the Athletic Committee the recognition of polo as a minor sport...
Reverend Potter does not recommend, however, that the full paraphernalia of Japanese ancestor worship be adopted. An American touch is to be gained by substituting extensive use of the radio for periodical visits to tombs and shrines. And were only the Eastern mystery of an ancestral fetish to be considered, there could be no doubt as to the popularity of this new radio religion. Inasmuch as it may be interpreted as thinly disguised propaganda for the intensive study of American history it seems, at least among the "rising generation" foredoomed to failure...