Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indolent the nature, how undisciplined the character, Harvard is to turn them, one and all, into scholars and useful citizens. Much is done. The great majority, of whom little is heard, are developed and improved. After many years of close observation of the college student, I feel impelled to suggest what is needed in a student beyond the power to pass examinations...
...should suggest that instead of using your columns as an instrument to persuade men to suspect the boat club and its management, that you should rather appeal to the college through them to give its entire support in a time of sore need, to one of its most popular teams. The boat club cannot exist without finances, and as it cannot support itself as the other associations can, it seems to me that we should use our every effort to help our crew win, rather than by inaccurate and unpatriotic statements help to increase the disadvantages under which...
...venture to suggest that B or C written at the end of a theme would tell one a good deal more than most of the criticisms which one now finds there. If his themes were marked one would have a definite notion of the value of his work-a notion which he certainly cannot get from "This shows care" or "Literary promise." Of course there are drawbacks to my plan, but I offer it as an improvement, not as an ideal...
...respectfully suggest to the manager of the eleven the advisability of taking a few hours from his valuable time to call upon various members of his class and soliciting subscriptions. The debt will not be removed by inactivity nor by the placing of a book for subscriptions upon the counter of a Cambridge tradesman. The manager is either neglecting his duty or is ignorant of just what is incumbent...
...WISH to inform all students of Harvard that we have special rates for them, and suggest an early sitting if pictures for Xmas are desired. Last year we were obliged to turn people away, but having enlarged the studio, and with increased facilities, we guarantee to all who favor us as good, if not better, work than can be obtained elsewhere.- PACH'S STUDIO, H. Wm. Tupper, Manager and Photographer...