Word: suggestiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chairs of the Edinburgh Medical faculty are each worth $17,000 a year. The professorships at Glasgow in Greek Latin and Mathematics are each worth about $9,000 yearly. These figures suggest the propriety at least of increased salaries in American colleges...
...petition before the Overseers on Monday, March 25. Two meetings are usually necessary to form permanently such a society, and there was only time for one meeting in this case. As many men as possible were collected on Thursday evening and a temporary organization made with a committee to suggest a constitution. On Friday a meeting was held at which a constitution was adopted, officers elected and instructed to place before the Overseers the petition for a room in Sever. The men who were interested in this were actuated solely by a desire to have some sort of dark room...
...Tech. Club for a road race. The challenge was accepted for April 13, and a committee composed of Brown, '91, Davis, '91, and Greenleaf '92, was appointed to meet a similar committee from Tech. to arrange the details of the race. It was voted that the Harvard club suggest to Tech. the establishment of a regular annual race for a perpetual challenge cup, the cup to be subscribed for jointly by the clubs. The joint committee will meet as soon as possible to make arrangements...
...much cannot be said of oral examinations. He has no such infallible proof of his work as his blue book gives him nor even a list of the questions he has been called upon to answer. To remedy this difficulty, I wish to suggest that, where it is not already so, a third party-another professor, or some one with a knowledge of the subject-should be present at examinations of this kind. I know that this system is practiced in some other colleges...
...trial of candidates for the Glee Club will be held Monday evening. It is customary at these trials to allow the presence of spectators, who doubtless obtain much amusement at the expense of the successful or unsuccessful candidates. Our attention has been called to this and we would suggest that hereafter these trials be held only in the presence of members of the club. An audience of outsiders, however interested, can only serve to embarrass the candidates and hinder them from making their best efforts...