Word: commend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventy page report based on five months of keen observation and thoughtful analysis is a unique performance for undergraduates. Such is the record of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Education, and we highly commend them for their diligence and active interest in the affairs of the University. Such carefully thought-out and constructive suggestions from a student committee indicate a healthy condition at Harvard. Recognition of a malady, when a accompanied by definite steps toward correction, is half the remedy...
...April 1906 says: "The joyousness of exuberant youth has been happily dramatized by Rida Johnson Young in "Brown of Harvard," and unless outward signs should fail. Henry Woodruffs stellar career has started in with every indication of lasting favor. The play depicting undergraduate life at Cambridge has much to commend it for its fresh and accurate character drawing and the breezy naturalness of the dialogue. Like all pieces of its kind, the moving motive is the struggle for athletic supremacy. . . . "Brown of Harvard" will greatly please the younger set, nor will it to other than give pleasure to those...
...commend to the consideration of all Protestants the question whether they will not more certainly honor Christ as their Savior and King by faithfully adhering to the truth of the Gospel and conforming their lives thereto than by joining in the celebration of a mighty festival marked by 'magnificent processions' and outward 'ceremonies'?" By unanimous vote the Council decided to appeal to all other Protestant bodies to abstain from taking part in the new Feast...
That Harvard required a further limitation of numbers was clear. Given that limitation it was essential to choose the successful candidates upon some competitive principle. The wise solution which has been evolved by the University will commend itself everywhere to undergraduates to graduates, and to general public alike...
...Anyone who tries to be a Christian and a prohibitionist must lead a double life. I commend that sentence to the gentlemen from Georgia [Mr. Upshaw] and Texas [Mr. Blanton]. Truth crushed to earth will rise again...