Word: recommending
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...charged, are things of the past. We take this position, not because the Winter Meetings are bad but because they have out lived their usefulness. When there are many forms of athletics in which students eagerly take part the attempt to continue old forms which have little to recommend them except that they were once popular,- this seems to us like throwing good effort away. The meetings which are really needed are those held out-of-doors, and we are sure that such painstaking and conscientious work as the Athletic Association officials do, will make such a meeting an entire...
When, however, the President turns from the present to the future, when he ends his description of the abuses and commences his recommendation of remedies, the great body of students will falter in foilowing him. The President names a number of possible remedies, and probably does not intend that all should be applied at once. Exactly what remedies, however, he would have applied first are not specified and therefore all the remedies are presented as equally imminent. Some of these measures have much in them that will recommend them to the students, but, on the other hand, there...
...belief that the President would, when it came to a question of action, recommend only mild measures, and that he really intends to hold these measures in reserve in case the mild measures should not be sufficient. We consider it unfortunate, nevertheless, that he mentions any such extreme measures at all. The great body of students in Harvard today feel that some reform in athletics is needed. These students are not greatly prejudiced either for or against athletics; they believe that athletics are good and give undoubted contributions to the upbuilding of health, manliness, and morality; and, on the other...
...study of Napoleon's wars, and has recently completed an account of the battle of Waterloo, which is one of the most comprehensive in existence. The name of Mr. Ropes is, in itself, sufficient guarantee to all Harvard men of the worth of any subject which he should recommend, but double interest is lent to this subject form the fact that Mr. Ropes's own labors have been spent upon...
...captains and managers have agreed to abide by these rules, and the committee has voted to recommend the adoption of substantially the same principles in the constitutions, subject to the action of the university during February...