Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should like to suggest May 30, Decoration Day, as the date most convenient for us. On that day we could secure the University field, as both the University and the Freshmen will be away. We have conferred with the baseball manager and found that it will be practically impossible to secure the field on any other day. And certainly no one would dare suggest that such a game be played on any less imposing field. If this arrangement is convenient to you, I shall expect to secure official confirmation as soon as possible...
Instead of two separate dual meets Princeton and Cornell join in extending cordial invitation to Cambridge and Oxford for a dual meet at New York about July 29, between combined Princeton-Cornell team and combined Cambridge-Oxford. Suggest conditions of meet similar to that of Oxford-Princeton last summer." (Signed) "Berry, Cornell; McLenahan, Princeton...
...subject of the two main addresses is "The Failure of Our Prisons", and while both speakers agree on the word "failure", they ascribe it to different causes and will probably suggest different remedies, Mr. Baldwin being in favor of abolishing prisons altogether and Mr. O'Brien advocating nothing more radical than reform...
Boston, affirms a time-worn jest, is not a place but a state of mind. If this be so,--and some foundation must exist for the adage,--the query next follows: what is this state of mind? Intellectual, many will reply; Puritanical, others may suggest; or unbalanced, the sarcastic might intimate. But judging a cross-section of the populace--as exhibited at the theatre, for example--one receives the impression that the true state is irresponsible levity...
...should like to avail myself of your columns for a few remarks on the new sheet, The Aristocrat. First of all let me suggest a more fitting motto: There is no god but classicism and Irving Babbitt is its prophet. For the editors might at least have been gracious enough to acknowledge those statements more obviously taken over from Professor Babbitt's writings and lectures...