Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...obituary notices in another column suggest these few remarks. The departure of those so lately associated with us cannot fail to add a new seriousness to the thoughts and life of every thinking...
...these questions can be argued, but the upholders and opposers of the proposition seem to consist respectively of those who take exercise and those who do not, so the decision will probably rest, in the end, on individual convenience. We can only ask for fairness on both sides, and suggest that it may be harder for the boating-men, etc., to give up their exercise, outdoors or in, or to take it at inconvenient times, than for the hard students to make a different disposition of their hours of study...
...high, and practice is, of course, the best preparation; but books, like Howard Staunton's Chess-player's Hand-Book, and other works by the same author, will be found helpful. We would not express the least doubt of the value of this society, but would like to suggest as an interesting question for thought: "Can the faculties called forth and stimulated by chess-playing be made use of in professional or scientific pursuits...
DEAR SIRS, - In the last number of your paper, and in fact for some time past, I have noticed several articles suggesting the idea of forming a Chess Club, but beyond this there seems to have been no active undertaking in the matter. From my own experience, and from the experience of those who have been members of the prominent chess-clubs in this country, I should judge that the forming of a club, and keeping the members interested in its proceedings, was a thing easily undertaken, and on account of the interest that has been lately manifest, it appears...
...hands of a clique, who, instead of forming a chess-club, might end by practically constituting a social club, in which a person's ability as a chess-player would be among the last grounds of his eligibility as a member. In this connection it would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made by all, and that members ought to come expecting to yield certain points of rules and decorum, which in another place might be insisted on. However, personal...