Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...name and reception of the paper. From these editorials we learn that Quip is "a girl," and from this infer that the central figure on the title page is a portrait of the fair daughter-in-law of Life. We think the editors should have adopted the name suggested in the last editorial, the Yale Brace, as indicating the decided need of the paper. The first picture (on page 5) is enough to spoil any paper, and the joke (?) attached reminds us in its lucidity of some of the recent editorials in the News. The initial letters on the next...
...round back, the hanging head, the wriggling body, these are only a few of the hideous distortions observable on every side. How are they to be accounted for? Simply by this, that the wretched creatures who indulge in them are too proud to take a lesson. Go and suggest to one of the tradesmen's' clubs which is out for practice on a Saturday evening that one or two of its members would be all the better for a little coaching, and ten to one, both those individuals themselves and the bulk of the crew, if not even its captain...
...wise one, at least as far as the quinquennial catalogue is concerned. The usefulness of that valuable work would be much increased if it were printed in a language in which a few of us are moderately versed. If the change can not be made, we would suggest to some enterprising student to get out a "translation," which, however, we fear would supplant the original...
...commencement exercises are concerned, we do not feel so strongly. It does not matter very much in what language the president tells us to come forward for our degrees, so long as we get those valuable pieces of parchment. We would suggest, however, that it would add much to the impressiveness of the occasion to have the pronunciation used a little more in accordance with that taught in the university, for the sake of consistency at least...
...opinion relating to this subject by President Eliot, such as the above, and delivered with the intent of influencing the opinion of a part or of the whole public naturally can be expected to attract attention and to provoke criticism. Such expression of opinion, therefore, we venture to suggest, should be carefully considered and sifted of all inaccuracies or dubious statements, before it is made...