Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...crew, instead of keeping the first and second crews distinct, as was intended when the club system was instituted. This practice cannot be fairly discontinued by one club, unless the others discontinue it also, and we have therefore been requested by the captain of one of the clubs to suggest that a meeting be called of members of all the clubs, to take action in regard to this and other matters of general interest. It would be well if the meeting were held at an early date, in order that everything may be settled before the training for the Spring...
...future time, a shade of red can be procured which, being as vivid as cardinal red, yet approaches more nearly to crimson, your committee suggest that it be adopted. Your committee would suggest, furthermore, that it should be distinctly stated in the College papers what color and shade has been selected. Very respectfully...
...attaches to the argument a kind of "preventer backstay" in the following quotation from Scripture: "The Lord delighteth not in the strength of the horse, and taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." As an equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority, I would suggest that haste makes waste; there are those that go out for wool and come home shorn; the pitcher that goes too often to the home base has his nose broken at last; every tub should stand upon its own bottom, - all of which are exceedingly good a priori arguments and bear...
...their distinguishing characteristics. One saunters slowly along the entry, and then, as if to make up for wasted moments, takes the next flight four steps at a time. Another delights in rapping the whole length of the wall, as if trying to find a sound spot, or possibly to suggest prospects of a visitor to the occupants of the entry. A third drags his stick along the floor, and drops it on the stairs, apparently for the purpose of picking it up again. In short, all have little favorite noises that, to a good listener, indicate very plainly...
...last Advocate in reference to the objectionable editorial of the Transcript is so admirable an exponent of the popular feeling among undergraduates as regards false representations in public journals, that it arouses in me a desire to attempt an exposition of the sources of these evil communications, and to suggest some means by which at least a diminution of such occurrences may be effected. And it is only because the writer sees that the increase of such publications is likely to effect some serious results that he feels at liberty to broach the subject...