Word: commend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this movement. The spontaneous and increased interest in spiritual things, shown by the establishment of these meetings proves that the new religious regime at Harvard has resulted in the quickening of religious life, and not in the deadening of it, as was gloomily prophesied by many. We heartly commend the starting of these class prayer meeting, and hope that every one who sympathizes with their purpose will show it by supporting them...
...cannot commend too highly the action taken at the mass meeting last evening. Harvard has taken a fair and decided position and has shown that she will not allow her policy to be dictated by the action of any other college. The meeting showed the universal sentiment of the college, that we have gone too far to withdraw, and that a new base-ball association must be formed. At a mass meeting held on Wednesday, Yale voted to empower her delegates to enter any league except a triple one composed of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. When Yale sees the position...
...degree of S. B. and C. E. The memory of the Lawrences will still be commemorated in the names, of certain professorships, and the work which they inaugurated will continue without the necessity of a separate faculty to guide it. We hope these recommendations of President Eliot will commend themselves to the authorities concerned...
...meeting of the class of '89 of the University of Pennsylvania, it was decided to give up the traditional bowl fight, and to commend this action to further classes as a precedent...
...hospitability for new ideas has characterized the Yale men of the past, and I commend the Yale spirit to you in this regard. Yield yourself to this influence of the University. Be earnest, honest and fair-minded students. Manliness and the manly sense of duty is allied to this. It is the second element of the Yale student. The rules of the university life are justified largely on this ground; they are the expression of manly living. The gentleman of leisure, even of elegant leisure, is not so far as my observation extends, the manly...