Word: suggestion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sequence to failure of the purely amateur system of coaching the Yale authorities suggest the abandonment of intercollegiate sport. Supposing this were done. Supposing also that Princeton and Harvard joined with Yale in their radical step? The effects would be rather far reaching. Primarily we would see immense amphitheaters representing an enormous investment--$500,000 in the case of the Yale Bowl--standing as valueless relics. We would see the abrupt cessation of the income, with the equally immediate collapse of various non-productive' sports to the support of which this annual increment has been devoted...
...view of the widespread interest throughout the College in the present campaign, the Wilson Club would like to suggest through the columns of the CRIMSON a joint discussion of the issues involved in the presidential campaign with the Republican Club, the terms of such discussion to be arranged later. We would suggest that the meeting be held in the Union or in some other suitable place in the University, within the next two weeks...
...suggest that the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard unite in raising a fund to erect a tablet to his memory, and no more fitting spot to place it could be found than Soldiers Field, because I am sure the donor of the field would feel that it was a fitting place for a memorial to a man who was worthy to rank with his own friends of the Civil...
...pronunciamento at Birmingham concerns also the artists and poets, the men of science and the men of thought. Who will suggest a fair set-off in lines of railroad laid down or in buildings put up for the "unsubstantial" creations of a Beethoven or a Mozart, a Verdi, a Gounod or a Wagner? How many feet of lumber cut, sawed and split-how many tons of coal raised from the mine and delivered-equal in value the influence on men of poems like the "Psalnt of Life," of songs like the "Marsellaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner"? Do I seem...
...does not like to be hypercritical; but perhaps one may suggest that a little more care in editing this number might have removed several flaws in English,--a split infinitive, and awkwardly constructed sentences...