Word: commend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Consequently, the "atmosphere" of the piece is a most elusive thing and extremely difficult to get across the footlights. That the performance almost succeeded in doing this is a matter for no little praise. In fact, the effort was such an admirable one, and there is so much to commend, that a would-be critic hesitates to mention any of the faults--we have too few performances of such plays in America...
...seems to me that the halls of learning are not a fit place in which "to offer incense to the God of Nicotine." In some universities smoking in the university buildings is forbidden. I commend this idea to the Faculty and student body as one worthy of adoption here. CHARLES W. T. WELDON...
...question of a fitting memorial to the Princeton men who have given their lives in the war, is one which should commend itself to the earnest consideration of all Princetonians, graduates and undergraduates alike....... There are three fundamental qualifications which any memorial must fulfil. It must be a thing in which every undergraduate must have had an opportunity to contribute his thought and means to its realization. Secondly, it must be dignified, symbolic of the memories and deeds it seeks to perpetrate. And lastly, it must be susceptible of use by the undergraduates in their daily life on the campus...
Perhaps a few readers of the CRIMSON, gifted with uncommon powers of insight and penetration, have been able to understand what we have been talking about; to such as have, we do commend our crushed and humbled spirits...
...these gentlemen I would commend one further word--'ARETE--which in its several and interrelated meanings will quite repay a voyage to the dictionary. EDWIN B. HOLT