Word: commend
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...current Nation contains a well-considered editorial, upon "Yale and Harvard," suggested by the recent reports of Presidents Porter and Eliot, which we commend to the attention of all college men. The writer compares the Yale system to the great schools of England, Eton and Rugby, and finds the Harvard theory to be an approximation to the type of the European university. Commenting upon the disadvantages of the method of strict regulations and supervision imposed upon students at Yale, he says: "No efficient seat of learning can, with any endowment which any American college now possesses or hopes to possess...
There is much mud. For quiet, swell, muddy streets, commend us to Cambridge...
...pleasure of witnessing the interesting struggle for bouquets, because the accommodations have been so limited. The Yard can be cleared preliminary to these exercises, and then ample room will be afforded all, to whom it properly belongs, to see what hitherto has been open to comparatively few. We commend the suggestion to the class...
...suggestion that heliotypes be substituted for the usual class photographs is at least worth considering. How far practicable it is to abandon photographs we do not know. It would certainly be a less bulky and less expensive method of obtaining views of buildings and the various groups. We commend the plan to the attention of the Senior class...
...with great regret that we hear that Phillips Brooks has declined to accept the call of the President and Fellows to the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals. We cannot too strongly commend the course which led to his choice, as he is the man who would have done most to place Harvard on a good footing with the Orthodox world; his coming here would have proved that Harvard was non-sectarian, and at the same time not non-religious or anti-Christian. As to the good that he could have done in the College, little need be said...