Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ARTICLE IX. - REPORTS.At the annual meeting, the Executive Committee, through the President, shall make a full report of their proceedings during the previous year, and recommend such measures as they may deem advisable; the Treasurer shall present a detailed report of the finances...
...left to the decision of the more experienced; that it will gain great popularity, and deserved popularity, in the present, can be safely affirmed. In spite of its length, it is a pleasant book to read, and some parts of it will bear more than one reading. We recommend it to all Harvard men as a companion in their summer travels...
SCENE, Recitation Room. Artful Student (who wishes to make a favorable impression on his French instructor, just before the Semiannuals). Monsieur, will you be good enough to tell me what books you would recommend me to read at sight outside of the class? Acute Instructor (who has been caught in the trap before). If you want something to read at sight, sir, I should recommend the books we have been using in the class...
...mystery to all but themselves, we are tempted to remonstrate once again. And when, in addition, we think upon the course of those who refuse to acquaint us with our marks at all, we feel sure that this final growl on our part is pardonable. We would recommend that the College press be still more chary of its praise, if the adulation of a three-line editorial has such a disastrous effect...
...first place, we took it for granted that good part-singing needed nothing to recommend it, and that most people enjoyed it. We see now that our assumption was a false one, for "L." apparently thinks that a Glee Club, if it is to succeed, must have a set of reasons drawn up to justify its existence...