Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somebody must get a little cannot you suggest the thing be done in connection with some intellectual stunt-instead of a God damned glutton...
...Yale established so complete a monopoly upon the humor of the evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint of trade. Surely it is a plausible theory that the editors of the Lampoon had been bribed by Yale not to suggest, in preparation for the debate a single risible notion of which the Harvard team could make capital...
...present system of distribution contains no solution for the problem of specialization. A superficial knowledge of the subject matter in several fields does not offer the needed broadening and training of minds which the situation in colleges calls for. I would suggest rather a compromise study of some related whole which would have as its primary object the training of speed and accuracy in the student mind rather than the filling of it with great amounts of subject matter. We might for instance, devote the whole Freshman year to a study of one period in Greek history...
...choice of interpretations is sufficiently catholic. Sherwood Anderson leads the American writers treated; Henry James comes last. Of foreign writers the names of Anatole France, Joseph Conrad and John Donne suggest a diversity of patients. Among the poets in the doctor's waiting-room are Blake, Keats and Poe. Weber and Fields are not too low nor is Eleanora Duse too exalted for attention. Among the best studies are those of Brigham Young, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir William Osier, James J. Corbett and George Cohan. Only a hint of the complete list may be gathered from these names...
Robert Benchley in the current "Harper's" never suspected he was to be used as a text for a sermon. Yet his article can well be thus employed. He suggests the necessity for a certain rapport between audience and actor too often completely lacking. Could he not suggest the necessity of such a rapport between lecturer and student...