Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling over the higher electives, to be interrupted by piercing screams or intermittent warblings from unknown parts of the yard. We do not venture to suggest a remedy for this most crying evil, but that it must not go on is too evident...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-The article in your issue of February 8th upon "Our Ranking System," reminds one very forcibly of the fact that it is quite easy to find fault with a system and suggest remedies, but unfortunately what seems a remedy to one appears as an injustice to another. I refer to the "third reform" which the author of the above mentioned article suggests, which is essentially as follows: that, since the fact of having taken one course in any branch of knowledge, renders a student more fitted to advance in other courses of that branch, this should...
...March, to give time for printing both photographs and heliotypes from the plates. Many of the class have not been taken at all, and more having been taken once, have not troubled themselves to accept the negative, or else to make a new appointment. The committee would also suggest that it is quite as important to keep an appointment as to make it. All those, therefore, who have not been photographed, are urgently asked to do so at once...
...suggest the following changes to correct the evils enumerated above...
...establishment of a chair of naval architecture in this country would certainly be a novel idea. If such a professorship existed in one of our universities, its incumbent might as an expert give valuable advice to the American Congress, which at present is at a great loss to suggest a plan for resuscitating the industry of American ship-building. Such a professorship would be more appropriate however at one of our technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Great Britain at least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London...