Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...overdone. The undergraduate departed last summer, thanking Providence and the benefactors of the University that at last the Charles was spanned by a suitable structure. He returns to find it giving the appearance of a martial host about to sweep down up on Cambridge. Our lighter contemporary has already suggested that the lamps were anything but neutral, but with their present aureate decorations the worst foars of a Teutonic invasion seem realized. Would it savor too much of a carping spirit to suggest that the present color scheme might be toned down with great advantage...
...more advanced courses especially the theory in force is that of allowing wide choice and initiative as regards reading. Sometimes this reading is not tested, and the students' word is taken as sufficient evidence that it has been adequately done. Without wishing to attack student honor unduly, one may suggest that this is not a very dependable method. It results too often in glancing over the matter to be read, if the reader has a conscience; otherwise nothing is done...
...system of half-courses in French or German (not counting towards a degree) for probation as the penalty for flunking the orals. The representatives of the Student Council hereupon requested of President Lowell that, inasmuch as some modification of the penalty system was critically urgent, he should suggest some modification that would be more acceptable to the Faculty than that emanating from the Council. The interviews and correspondence which followed must be passed over, but suffice it to say that at length two definite innovations in the oral exam. system were commended by President Lowell, endorsed by the Student Council...
...into closer union students and preceptors, but is a relation entirely between students. The intercourse between the student who is advised and the student adviser is expected to be informal, though serious. The work of the Bureau, will be watched with interest; and if its success continues, may well suggest like improvements elsewhere. The hearty co-operation of that part of the student body which will be affected is essential to this success...
...Revolutionists," I beg to make reply to the letter in yesterday's CRIMSON upholding drinking at class smokers. The writer asks--"Have those who prefer beer ever objected to the serving of ginger ale or sarsaparilla"? Let me suggest that the men who drink beer never have any excuse for objecting to their soft-drink neighbors. In many cases, the compliment cannot be returned. He then asks--"How many members of the class would attend a smoker at which no beer was served"? If a man has so little class spirit, that he will not come to a smoker unless...