Word: commend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee will formulate their plans and report them at the next meeting of the Board of Trustees; there is little doubt but that these plans will provide for a celebration on a grand scale, and will commend themselves to all graduates and friends of the college...
...part of the twenty or thirty men who followed their fortunes, and shared their triumph. We can only commiserate the men who, having nothing to interfere with their going to New Haven, save a miserable lack of confidence in the nine, wilfully remained in Cambridge. We would particularly commend the captain and manager of the nine for their energy, industry, and perseverance; the former, in keeping his men down to their work, in convincing them of the importance of training and practice, and in exercising careful personal supervision over the work of each man; and the latter, in the thoroughness...
...show, not the poorest, but the best work of which he was capable. There were no catch questions of any sort whatever. The questions were broad, and represented every part of the work done in the course during the whole of the second half-year, and we do not commend too highly in saying that it is a model examination paper for this and other kindred courses...
...observant member, too, of Harvard, takes pains to criticize justly many of the failings of our college, but he does it in so admirably impassionate a manner that he deserves the warmest praise of all lovers of Harvard University. As a model of clearness and force, we commend it to the attention of our readers, and we hope the opinions therein expressed will fall under the notice of the "powers that...
...think that the first resolution passed by the Conference Committee will commend itself to all. Heretofore dishonesty has, by the sanction of the faculty's rule, held much the same position as playing ball in the yard. It is a thing not wrong in itself; but merely improper in college. Striking out any rule about the matter puts the crime on the same ground as stealing books from the library. Stealing is everywhere an offence, and needs no rule to make it so. Men do not need to be told about that which by everyone everywhere is or should...