Word: suggested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...price of board, the letter of the president explains the cause of the present low price. If, however, the board is required not to exceed $4.00, we would suggest that next year the management sees that the catalogue, instead of stating that the price should not exceed $4.50, should be corrected...
...deservedly popular book, was exhausted in such a short time, that a second edition has recently been prepared, in which special pains have been taken to correct all errors, and to revise as carefully as possible, the work of the first edition. As the title of the book would suggest, the book aims at giving a brief synopsis of the important events of the world's history up to the present day. The subject matter is arranged in a clear and logical manner; a number of genealogical tables are scattered through the work, greatly adding to its effectiveness, and particular...
...thus discourses: "The recent foot-ball upheaval at Harvard has not passed by without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter-collegiate association had made the annual changes in the rules. Surely if there is the strong public...
...literati is looking out for something to occupy his talents over, we would suggest to him that he write for the prize which the Russian Academy offers for the best essay on the life and reign of Alexander I. The minister of Alexander I. left a bequest of 50,000 roubles in charge of the Academy, with the conditions attached that the money, after accumulating for one hundred years, should be given to the writer of the best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation...
...forbids its use oftener than once a month. We, therefore, pass over the old grievance this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore, respectfully suggest that on cloudy mornings the gloomy chapel be illuminated by a stray candle here and there. The reader may now expect some words about electric light in the library. But, for today we have finished our suggestions to the powers above us, whether faculty or janitor...