Word: commend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...idea of the erection and maintenance of a Phillips Brooks House, which is carefully explained in the letter from Mr. Abbott, published in another column should commend itself to everyone as an excellent opportunity to complete a work in which Dr. Brooks himself was so much interested, and for which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription...
...Resolved, that the students of the University of Pennsylvania wish to place themselves on record as in favor of any just legislation to eradicate existing evils in intercollegiate athletics, and we hereby heartily commend the plan suggested by Mr. Caspar W. Whitney in the issue of Harper's Weekly for January 28, 1893, as providing an effectual remedy for the abuse complained...
Senator Proctor of Vermont will probably introduce into the Senate this week a bill looking to the foundation of a great national university in Washington. The bill is said to be practical, and to have features that will commend it to the support every congressman. The framer is Ex-Governor John W Hayt, of Wyoming, an experienced educator, who represented the American universities at the university celebrations in the Old World, and who is familiar with institutions of learning on the continent. He thinks that no place in the world has so many promising possibilities and advantages as Washington...
...Lovett's paper on "Cardinal Newman" is, as has been said, very careful and scholarly, but it has not the life to commend it to the ordinary reader, and the pains taken with it will not make up to him for its length. The fact that in spite of this length the substance is of excellent material, does not prevent its being...
First of all we wish to commend very highly the plan of printing a number of pictures especially appropriate to the Christmas-time and above all the pictures by Americans. There are reproductions of no less than five paintings by our own artists. One which we at Harvard should be interested in the "Mother" by Edward E. Simmons, himself a Harvard man and the author of the window in Memorial which the class of '84 put up. The others are by Abbott H. Thayer, Mary L. Macomber, E. H. Blashfield and F. V. Drumond...