Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hooks supplied for hanging hats and overcoats upon in the main hall of the gymnasium are entirely insufficient. As this is the only place where men can leave their coats while exercising, we would suggest that more hooks be added at once. The cost would be trifling and the convenience would be great...
...last week in May at Cambridge University happening after the great test examinations of the year is given up to revel and gaiety. The annual races of the colleges are then held. Balls, parties and social meetings fill up the week. He who should suggest the abolition or curtailment of either of the university carnivals, says a recent writer in Chamber's Journal, would be regarded as a revolutionary innovator, no less dangerous than if he had proposed to pull down "Tom Quad," or to let out as building-plots the university cricket-ground. The great "bumping" races that occur...
...students of the University of Edinburgh, an account which we reproduce in another column. What morals the English papers have been drawing from these proceedings, which, we believe, have become customary from long usage and sanctioned by venerable tradition, we are uninformed. To Americans certainly this report will naturally suggest unamiable reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance, We venture to assert that nowhere in America has such a brutal and disgraceful performance ever taken place at any of our colleges. The tu-quoque...
...abandoning the regatta is that it interferes with our foot-ball prospects. What our foot-ball prospects are I really cannot say. We have had prospects ever since our foot-ball commenced, and if they are the same this year as they have been in years past, I would suggest that we hold two or three fall regattas, for the sole purpose of interfering with them...
From Brown's treatment of Amherst, it would almost suggest itself to an unprejudiced mind that Brown, not Amherst, be excluded from the college league. - [News...