Word: commend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to commend to the attention of members of the University the talks which Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological School is giving under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society. Dr. Hodges is a most scholarly and entertaining man and the subject which he is treating is not nearly as well-known as it should be. The talks are short, interesting and well worth listening...
...contests of the present day are tending more and more to make the greater number of students take exercise only vicariously. To those who apprehend a danger in this tendency, any effort to provide a game in which a large number of men can obtain active, agreeable exercise will commend itself...
...glad to commend to the attention of the University the current number of the Harvard Monthly...
...Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness...
...Boat Club will be very generally approved. It has always seemed unnatural that a students, simply because he happened to join in the fall, was given longer use of the boat house privileges than another who joined in the spring. The reform will certainly be one more thing to commend the boat house to students...