Word: commend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obliged to go to heavy expense in the way of fees and assessments. This plan for a university club is by no means a new one, in fact, the matter was discussed in the old Harvard Herald some few years ago. Yet the project has many points to commend it to favorable deliberation. For instance, by forming a club of this kind with a large membership, a small assessment fee would be amply sufficient to provide many desirable features of club life, such as a good reading-room, a comfortable smoking room, and telephone and mailing facilities. We think...
...great complaint at present in this matter is one resulting from sectarian feelings. Catholics, or Jews are afraid to send their children to school where protestant religious forms are observed, and vice versa. The plan of having separate religious exercises for the different factions in the schools does not commend itself to us; for it would not only cause much more trouble and probably increased expense, but would also strengthen quite unnecessarily the feelings of disagreement among the parents of the pupils and their teachers. And so unless a single service can be held in which all can have confidence...
...congratulate eighty-six on her victory yesterday, but we cannot commend the spirit that prompted her refusal to postpone the game...
...plot of the book is fanciful and strong. Many of the situations are dramatic and intense in feeling, and the fantastic moods of the central character, Richard Beverly, are admirably worked out. But although, as a whole, we heartily commend the plot, there are a number of instances where, it seems to us, its development has been uneven and almost weak. The incidents are not always up to the pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several...
This, in brief, is the new scheme of self-support inaugurated by our sister college at Ithaca. It has many points to commend it. We should like to see the plan tried at Yale. If it succeeded there, we might venture to try it ourselves...