Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would humbly suggest the value of such a course at Harvard, and feel convinced that opportunity for learning a better and quicker way of taking notes would be quickly utilized by a large percentage of the students...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Knowing it to be the policy of the Co-operative Society to obtain the greatest good for the greatest number, I should like to suggest to them, through your columns, that they make a contract with either the Cambridge or some other laundry, to do the laundry work of the college. It will be both economical and convenient; economical, because we can then deal direct with the laundry and avoid the importunings of tradesmen to buy articles which we seldom want but often have forced upon us by such remarks as "willing to accommodate you," "no hurry...
...HARVARD HERALD: As usual, many men were disappointed in the result of the drawing for rooms last Tuesday. Of course, we all know that some must be disappointed, and therefore try to bear it with equanimity. But what adds to our disappointment is a thought which is apt to suggest itself to us, however unpleasant it may be, that we are not getting fair treatment. If we were sure that every thing was square and above-board, and that we had an equal chance with every other man, we would go our way in peace, simply regretting our bad luck...
...present in another column a communication written by some dyspeptic individual who signs himself "P. B." We suggest that the young man change his boarding-place, or compel his washerwoman to return his collar in time to enable him to make his Sunday calls...
...Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them the previousness, if I may use the word, of such proceedings. I suggest that, hereafter, more careful consideration and prudence be displayed in the management of affairs...