Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from the football authorities that there is a certain questioning by the students of players and coachers with regard to the secret practice on Soldiers Field. This curiosity to know what is going on there is quite natural and is probably felt by everybody in the University. We would suggest, however, that from now on the students refrain from asking questions of anybody who is admitted to the secret practice and keep this curiosity in check till it can be fully satisfied on Saturday. There is nothing to be gained by asking questions. The only available news of the practice...
...service at chapel for some time. Beginning this morning Professor Peabody takes charge of prayer. This change is in the natural order of events and does not indicate any change in the character of the service. The aim of the remarks will be, as it has always been, to suggest thoughts which will be of help for the life of an ordinary day; the choir will continue its pleasant part of the service; and the other factor, the attitude of the students, will surely be what it has been, one of interest and support...
...varsity football team leave the square this afternoon at three o'clock to take the train for New York for the game with Cornell. We feel that the students have every confidence in the team, and we suggest that they impress this fact upon Captain Waters and his men by sending them off today with a series of rousing cheers. With the beginning of this month the time between us and the great contest takes a long jump and we seem very much nearer to it than we did on the last day of October. It is a question...
What I wish to suggest is that two of the younger members of this year's crew be sent to England in July to practice under the best coachers that can be found among university crews there or in the London Rowing Club...
...scheme adopted by the commission of New England colleges was intended to encourage a taste for good reading by requiring the reading of good books; to induce boys to learn to write clearly and concisely, methodizing their knowledge at short notice, and to suggest to candidates obvious criticisms on their style by setting exercises in the correction of bad English. The essay, for the writing of which an hour is allowed, was meant to test the student's knowledge of the books read, and at the same time to test his ability to compose...