Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I would respectfully suggest to young "Hopeful," that perhaps the upperclassmen are not as anxious for the honor of his acquaintance as he seems to think. But why is he so modest? Why does he not "drop in" on juniors and seniors, as (he implies) they take the liberty of doing on him? No doubt they would try to endure him for a half an hour or so, if only to experience a delightful feeling of relief after he is gone. But another alternative also suggests itself. It would be a great honor to the class...
Students who will observe, or who can suggest observers in New England towns, are requested to address W. M. Davis, Cambridge, Mass...
...gymnasium. It is of course necessary that the attendants have an occasional holiday, and it is also eminently proper that the gymnasium itself be closed on Sunday. But could not the washing facilities be so regulated that students could make use of them on Saturday evenings. We suggest this change at the earnest request of many students, and hope to see it made at once, if practicable...
...Heinrich Jung-Stillung." It connot but make us proud, as Harvard students, that such work is being done among us. Mr. Leahy, in his story, has touched a note much higher in both strength and purity than is reached in the mass of college work. We would only suggest that he might have gained even greater strength, had he followed more closely the brevity and compactness in the formation of his sentences, which is a strong point of French writers. Mr. Berenson's account of Jung-Stilling is told in an intensely interesting manner, and with great lucidity. The poems...
...this is evidently the work of the paste-pot editor, we would suggest that the Spirit hunt up another man for the position, and be careful to get one who can read ordinary English aright, and one too, who is not so bigoted that he thinks a man incapable of common sense simply because he is a college undergraduate...