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Word: suggestiveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...track is progressing finely, and everybody seems pleased with it. But there is one thing which we venture to suggest as an improvement, that is raising the corners on the outside. An English authority says "experience also shows that if from necessity or other cause the corners of a path are more or less sharp, the danger of falling for bicyclists (and of spraining one's ankle for runners) is considerably lessened, and awkwardness decreased, if they are well raised on the outside. And we find that fast men on the bicycle fight very shy of tracks unsafe in construction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/16/1883 | See Source »

...manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have never been popular, and according to the common opinion have met with a very slight success in accomplishing the end aimed at. What plan the college can adopt to improve it in this respect it is difficult to suggest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/12/1883 | See Source »

...rigid economy prescribed by Mr. Winslow excellent, and followed out by the members of the nine, over $400 was lost by the association, owing principally to bed weather. According to the constitution of the Base-Ball Association the vice-president is scorer ex-officio. The captain of the nine suggests that the manager, or one of the substitutes, could often score, and thus a considerable item be saved by taking no scorer on some of our trips. I should suggest therefore that the vice-president be no longer scorer ex-officio, but that the captain shall appoint a scorer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL ASSOCIATION. | 10/4/1883 | See Source »

...suggest, with the approval of Mr. LeMoyne, that not the captain alone, but the executive committee, who would undoubtedly be largely influenced by the captain, select the Harvard nines for the future. This will relieve the captain of a little responsibility, and will give the college at large more voice in base-ball matters, while it will prevent any persons from complaining that the nine is run in favor of any class or clique. The captain should of course have full power when the executive committee cannot meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL ASSOCIATION. | 10/4/1883 | See Source »

...good. The fruit, however, is much better. So that all that can be asked is that the character of the lunches and the pastries be improved and that with all this improvement the price of board be kept within reasonable limits. The only change that I have to suggest beyond these two, is a radical one which, however, I am sure meets with the approval of a large number of men, As at present conducted, the hall offers us a heavy breakfast and dinner with a very light lunch which is of very inferior character. According to this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/3/1883 | See Source »

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