Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Loving cups, per se, are about as useless objects as one can well imagine. They cannot be used to hold flowers, nor yet potations. As decorations they suggest proficiency at golf or the modern dances. But the idea behind them, the spirit which actuates a Yale class to present a loving cup to a Harvard class--or vice versa, more than makes up for their intrinsic uselessness. They stand for courtesy and friendship. Yet the presentation of cups to Yale or Harvard classes should not become a mere custom. A loving cup, given because it is the thing...
There are moments when it is a little doubtful just what the author intends: even for a newspaper man Breck seems unduly credulous about the price of broken-down buggies and the efficacy of cocktails as cow-medicine, and the farmers in their twin make-up suggest vaudeville. But, farce or comedy, it is always entertaining and the characters are people whom one is glad to have met whichever way one takes them...
...view of these facts, I would suggest that after the Christmas vacation, Dr. Fitch's talks be held in the dormitory common rooms, rather than in Phillips Brooks House. HENRY STARK FERRISS...
Does Mr. Schenck suggest that because Great Britain has applied the "two-power" rule, only to her absolute control of the sea that therefore she has been inadequately armed? Yet the German army from the point of view of her military authorities was no more than "adequate"; was she saved from the present...
...sorts of possibilities suggest themselves. For instance, an individual actuated by a fifth group desire to assist the destitute Jones family might mail a check of such a comfortable figure that the Jones' would readily testify to the individual's right to receive a first group in his philanthropy course. Why, one might even obtain his Phi Beta Kappa key for a prescribed number of checks--the plan is limitless; or, perhaps, our less fortunate fellows are to be doled out in equal proportions for the craving philanthropists to practice their good works upon...