Word: suggested
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However great the dislike felt in regard to attendance at morning chapel, the Harvard student has to bear the unpleasantness of this attendance and is interested in all that is likely to make things more to his taste. We suggest, therefore, that men who intend going to chapel any morning, endeavor to be in their seats promptly. The lines of men that file in late almost every morning now give to the services a feature that is both disgraceful and thoroughly out of place. There is no reason why attendance, as long as it must be, should not be prompt...
...neglected in all our English composition courses, and that college poetry is wholly an affair of college periodicals. The Sargent prize will serve to elevate college poetry to official recognition, and offer an inducement to the college poets to pause for a moment from their "pessimistic wailing." We would suggest that if the prize is henceforth permanent, the date at which the papers are due should be in the early autumn, and not in the middle of a college term...
Although it is not the purpose of the CRIMSON to enter into politics, yet as there is one subject now prominently before the country, into which the courses in Political Economy enter, viz., the silver question, we would suggest the expediency of procuring lecturers, either at home or abroad, who would treat the subject in the impartial way in which socialism was treated by Rev. Mr. Brooks. Where is the Finance Club? A stirring lecture from some prominent financier or able business man would do much to gratify a widespread interest in college. Active legislators are prone to sneer...
...that, whatever combination of studies we have to deal with, individual marks and averages must be on a coarse scale; the system I suggest will be less definite, but more correct and just, than the present system. And it will serve the purposes of the university in determining degrees and honors. But it will do away entirely with our system of class ranking, because no such individual comparison can be justly made under an elective system. Each man will simply get credit for what he has done, and he will therefore aim at true proficiency, in place of any false...
...doesn't walk too fast. And if he undertakes to think without even walking, the time will come when he can neither think nor walk. The moral of all this is, be studious but be athletic also. An athletic student is worth something, and a studious athlete does not suggest an anomoly...