Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to suggest that this is as it should be: perhaps the monitor ought to be (as he really is in practice now), the human element to make the machinery fit individual cases. Such an idea at once meets with popular favor. Why not let the monitor replace the deans in passing on causes of absence? He has the undergraduate point of view, and his mediation can save the overworked office much troublesome routine...
Perhaps there is another way, besides literary theft, to account for the coincidences. The scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable...
...hear some business men say", he continued, "that reading, writing, spelling, and cyphering are the only proper objects of education, but I suggest a few more subjects for the schools and colleges to teach. In the first place, men should be trained in the powers of observation; they should be able to see the rocks, the trees, the rivers, and oceans, and to examine them accurately. This training has been particularly neglected in the elementary and secondary schools...
Contestants for the competition should bear in mind the limitations of the Hasty Pudding Club performances. It is not advisable to plan complicated scenery, or to suggest scenic effects. The play should be limited to as few acts as the plot permits. Any female roles which are not adaptable to a male cast are to be avoided. No restrictions will be made on the source of the plot, except that archaic or over-fanciful settings are not us acceptable as those of a strictly modern nature...
...ceased to yawn. The College office generally has aided him materially toward that end. He is sometimes heard to mutter "Hum" in a doubtful sort of way as if all within were not settled. A troubled brow and an occasional glance in the direction of a book-covered desk suggest a coming storm...