Word: commend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action that Harvard has thus far taken is a half way action, that she should either have postponed the question of a withdrawal, or else have withdrawn from all athletics. The former alternative is now out of the question-the latter only remains, and there is certainly much to commend this. The position in which Harvard stands today is in danger of becoming equivocal. By withdrawing entirely from any systematized intercollegiate athletics, Harvard would occupy a completely defensible and consistent position. It looks, more over, in view of Yale's growing reticence to broach the question of a dual league...
...politics it is intended that the lectures shall comprehend the development of the nation as a whole. The course although intended mainly for freshmen, is designed as a general introduction to the study of German Literature for any student who may be interested in the language. We therefore commend it to the attention of the students. The lectures will be given as announced in the calendar...
...immediately to be taken with that end in view. The-tally ho are well established features of the intercollegiate games, and certainly their occupants, particularly as they are so numerous, ought to be provided for as well as other spectators. We heartily endorse the sentiment of the communication, and commend the matter to the immediate consideration of the football management...
...receipt of the following letter from Dr. Lyman Abbott which we wish to commend to the attention of the students...
...year to devise some means whereby freshmen entering college may have the benefit of mature advice, and these efforts have resulted in the choice of certain professors as advisors of the freshman class both in the choice of college studies and in all matters of student interest. We cannot commend this innovation too highly since it guards against one of the most considerable-in fact almost the only important evil of the elective system-the possibility of immature choices...