Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...even supposing the fashions to remain as they are, I hold that I can support my pretensions to reading character in general fully as well as the average phrenologist; and, as neither his science nor mine satisfactorily solve the problems which may arise concerning women, I should venture to suggest that they might be profitably made the object of podological investigation...
...rest of our classmates with exceedingly indifferent eyes. This is doubtless pleasant, but it would prove more beneficial to ourselves and others if we could unbend sufficiently to cultivate other acquaintances. Be it understood that I am by no means advocating the "gushingness" of the Freshmen, nor do I suggest that we should be intimate with every one; but there is a happy mean between indifference and intimacy which might be with advantage more sought after...
...Wetmore No. 2, and changing two of the strongest men in the boat over to the side they are not accustomed to row on. Bacon and Taylor may be able to put as much strength into their stroke on one side as on the other, but we beg to suggest that experiments with the crew are exceedingly dangerous at this late day. One thing more. If the bow oar is to steer at Saratoga, it seems time that he should begin to learn this very important part of his duty...
...indefinite length of time, simply because the "roughs" insisted upon presenting themselves as spectators of the games. We offer the Cornell men our most sincere sympathy; and as we notice a complaint in the same article of the inefficiency of the Ithaca police-force, we cannot forbear to suggest that in Cambridge officials might be found against whom the charge of lack of rigor could never be preferred...
...Varsity,' Mr. Bacon has been pulling stroke during the week, so we are led to conclude that a decision has been reached, and that he is to occupy that position permanently. If this is not the case, we beg to suggest that too much valuable time is taken in making the choice. Two months before the regatta is late enough to find our crew settled upon and hard at work, and where the strokeship lies between three or four men, it is not supremely difficult to make a choice. We are sorry to miss Mr. Taylor on the crew...