Word: commend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plan of sending proctors to the different preparatory schools to conduct the preliminary and final examinations for entrance to Harvard, is one which has much to commend it. To come to Cambridge for the purpose of taking these examinations, requires an expenditure of time and money which, in the case of students at the more important of our preparatory schools, is now entirely obviated by the new plan...
...wish to commend '87 for the interest in lacrosse and for the large number of men whom she daily sends to the park for practice, but the work of the last two or three days will tell materially upon the strength and condition of the team, so we would urge upon '87 to put forth her best efforts during the short time that remains before the Harvard game next Saturday. [News...
...author emphatically declares this, and the work bears out the promise of his words. As a classical teacher and a Sanskrit learner, whose opinion may probably have some weight with his brethren, and with others who may wish to study this noble language, the writer does not hesitate to commend this scholarly and well-arranged book as the most practical and serviceable work of the kind known to him. By its assistance in conjunction with Professor Whitney's excellent grammar, students will be able to acquire a fair knowledge of Sanskrit with much greater pleasure and ease than formerly...
...plan seems to be to put all the sparring on the first day when no ladies are present, and when it would not be as much out of place as it certainly is now. Such a change, we feel sure, would meet with the approbation of all, and we commend it to the consideration of the Athletic Association...
...Post then discusses the resolutions in detail. We commend this discussion to any who may be still in doubt as to the resolutions. It concludes: "The fourth resolution provides for a standing committee of the colleges to supervise all contests and approve of all rules and regulations. This, of course, goes vastly further than all the others put together, and if they prove impracticable, it is much more so. It involves the transfer of the whole development of sports from the students to the faculty, and this not to the faculty of one college, but of several, different in circumstances...