Word: suggestiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Space does not permit the mention of other very important advantages to the Freshmen which would be secured by abandoning their segregation. I should like, however, to suggest an advantage to the administrative authorities which is well worth their consideration. Every one recognizes that under the plan as at present proposed, the problem of the assignment of the Sophomores to the several houses is going to present many serious difficulties. The authorities indulge in glittering generalities, and profess to feel sanguine of its solution, but underneath the surface they must be really worried over the prospect of an annual chorus...
...suggest to Mr. Cheever that the condition he mentions as due to the new Daylight Saving Time is not at all caused...
...suggest that the time be shortened if anything--not lengthened. Wallace K. Pinfold...
...would be rash," writes A. P. Herbert, in Punch, "to suggest that there is a decline in the celebrated sense of humor. But there is a plague of touchiness. The lot of the humorous writer is an increasingly hard one. If we are merely mild and agreeable the critics cry at us: 'Have you nothing to say? Have you no fierceness, no anger, no satire?' They little know, Whenever we do say anything, it is considered propaganda, or else a breach of taste...
...fortune to encounter humor of this type: certainly it would scarcely be appropriate for example in the echoing halls where a bronze Emerson stares through the dusky gloom. And, lest some should say that he has descended wholly from the "quality group" literarily or intellectually he will hasten to suggest the following lectures to those whom let us say the spring, has made less frivolously minded...