Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Advocate of June 9, 1876, I gave the titles of a few French books for the benefit of those who wished to do a little reading during the vacation. Being asked to do something of the same kind this year, I would, without repeating the list then given, suggest the following as easy and pleasant summer reading...
...rash and inconsiderate Argus, having ventured a "churlish criticism" of the Beacon, has been completely annihilated in half a column of simile, seriousness, and sarcasm. We, therefore, profiting by such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether...
...cooler and pleasanter time for study, - a valuable consideration in view of the hot summer days. But this morning hour cannot be secured without a change in the breakfast and chapel hours, since studying before breakfast is difficult and exhaustive, while breakfast before chapel is certainly impracticable. I would suggest, then, as a solution of this problem, that the chapel hour be at a quarter before seven, with breakfast immediately following, and that otherwise no change be made, the hours for recitation remaining just as they are. This arrangement would leave to those who desired it a full hour...
...would suggest, then, that those interested should circulate a petition for signatures, or else that a book be placed where all could sign their approbation or disapproval of the plan. And let the names be written out, since character as well as number will have its influence here...
...lecture on Fine Arts, I feel myself in no way bound to listen to personal and entirely irrelevant remarks on politics. If, however, I have made a mistake, and it is only my stupidity which prevents my seeing the intimate connection between politics and fine arts, I would humbly suggest that next year we have a Republican course of Fine Arts for a change...