Word: commend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What makes me particularly happy about my editorials is the fact that a great many college people have written in to commend my stand. It's really very heartening to see that a college now prepares its students to face world problems with good judgment. Publicity won't be able to put another World War over on them...
...commend you on having someone on your staff such as the flagitious reprobate who wrote that cowardly article [TIME, Jan. 30] ? May I also praise you and your atheistic masters for allowing an attack on the Catholic Church through your unwarranted and scurrilous article referring to the Church of the Little Flower as a silo...
...must commend the Crimson's observations that a "broader cultural and literary approach" is to be preferred over "musty research and dull philology." Ironically enough, however, they have chosen for their example of degenerate pedantry the very course which comes nearest to their ideal of artistic and intellectual stimulation: namely Greek 12. The brilliance of C. N. Jackson's lectures on the history of Classical Greek literature have shown that his ability to teach is every bit as great as his scholarship...
Battery "D", under commend of Captain Brunelli and Lieutenant John Briggs, 3d '38, will execute a close formation, exhibition drill during the review. Three members of the battalion will be decorated with medals for outstanding work and interest in their R.O.T.C. work...
...these suggestions commend themselves to you," says Dean Sperry, "my suggestion is that a meeting should be convened early in the academic year 1938-39, to go over the matters I mention and such others as may suggest themselves to you." He expects to have the suggestion debated during the rest of this year with definite action coming in a meeting to be held sometime in October...