Word: commend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preamble of resolution 1, and the resolution itself I heartily commend. You will see in the March number of the Popular Science Monthly a suggestion in agreement with this resolution...
...best illustrators and showing constant improvement due to their training. Nor is this influence exercised solely upon the artists of the illustrated paper. The many other men who take these courses become better acquainted with what is good in these bi-weekly issues, and they are less likely to commend poor work, thus stimulating the student artists to put forth their best work on all occasions...
...hard pressed enough anyhow at this time, and it may make a serious difference with their standing if they take sufficient time from their preparation to do the work well, as the instructors of course desire. There is no justice in such a proceeding to commend it in the slightest; on the contrary it is rank injustice both to the men and their work. We most earnestly hope that there may be no further cause for complaining on this score. In such a matter of simple fairness there ought never to arise even a chance for complaining...
...must be contented for the present with keeping alive what little interest there is, without endangering the whole project by trying to do too much. As to admitting graduates to the college clubs on an equal footing with the students, it would seem that this course has little to commend it, for it would be hardly just to allow older and more experienced shots to compete with men who are getting their first training during their college course. Moreover, graduates of a college might with as much justice be allowed to form a part of a crew, nine, or eleven...
...present on our first page a communication from the Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletics which we commend to the calm consideration of the university. We defer all criticism of our own until our next issue. We would say that the eleven is still in readiness to play the schedule games provided only permission is obtained...