Word: commend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses Engineering I and II will be on exhibition during commencement week in the rooms of the Lawrence School. These drawings will be of especial interest as evidence of scientific thought, and also as pieces of excellent draftmanship. This idea of Professor Chaplin is a worthy one, and should commend itself not only to those students of Harvard who are interested in the success of all departments of the University, but also to such outsiders as are interested in the engineering problems of the day. We sincerely hope that the experiment will meet such success as will make...
This plan of offering prizes is an excellent one and cannot fail to promote the interest already felt in musical matters at Yale. There is no reason why it should not commend itself to men at Harvard...
...could not compromise on a date for the race we thought this would be a good time to liquidate the debt that has been embarrassing us for several years, and start out next fall unimpeded to train for next year's race. This course, I am sure, will commend itself to our alumni, who like to see business methods used in such matters. In order to keep up general interest in rowing matters throughout the college we intend to make a great feature this year of the class races, which will be rowed...
...only tend to discourage looseness of living and to found a strong constitution, but, if taken rightly, they can hardly fail to develop in the athlete to a marked degree the qualities of courage, perseverance, loyalty, and a high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid all tricks and underhand practices. That part...
...wish to call attention to the statement from the 'Varsity team on our first page which we think will commend itself to all men here, at Yale, or anywhere else. Harvard and Harvard men have had no part in the newspaper statements of the last two or three days, nearly all of which were written by men so ignorant of the matter that they even imagined the referee to have been Mr. Cook, and the umpire Mr. Hancock! These misstatements have made necessary this declaration of the 'Varsity's intentions which we print...