Word: commend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University is called to another petition to the Corporation for a new dining hall. The men whose names appear as promoters of the scheme are sufficient guarantee that all the student interests of the university are involved. Further than this Professor Shaler, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Bolles and Professor Bartlett commend the plan heartily. They stand ready to use their influence with the Corporation provided the petition receives a sufficient number of signatures...
...withstanding our conviction of the reasonableness of our position since it does not commend itself to you, and since you must desire as strongly as we do to avoid the fruitless outcome of last year's games, we propose to you to refer the decision as between your plan and ours to two graduates, one from Harvard, to be chosen by us, and one from Harvard, to be named by you. In case the two graduates so chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a third person, not a graduate of either University, to act with them, and the decision...
With one or two exceptions we can heartily commend the fairness of Yale's proposition. It expresses apparently a sincere desire to arrange games in base ball this spring. It also for the first time intimates that Harvard's cooperation in Yale's efforts to reform collegiate athletics is sought for. Had Yale seen fit, at the very beginning, to take Harvard into her plans, we venture to say that the two universities could have succeeded in adopting measures for purification, which would have been satisfactory to all. However, Yale did not see fit to do this; Harvard is nevertheless...
...this issue of the Monthly a real service will be done the university. We shall have an interesting, varied, intelligent account of a life which means every thing to college men and we heartily commend the number to the students...
...Association voted the following. with regard to the proposed religious building: Resolved, that this association heartily commend the action of Mr. Edwin H. Abbot and the class of '55 in their proposal to erect a religious building in honor of Phillips Brooks; first, because the erection of such a building was the earnest desire of the late Bishop, and second, because, as a memorial of him, it will keep fresh in the minds of the students of Harvard University the ideal to which he attained...