Word: commend
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...foregoing is published with the full approval of a non-partisan Nominating Committee. It should commend itself to any man who believes that in politics as in athletics Harvard stands for cleanness first, last, and all the time. EDWARD EYRE HUNT...
...revival of undergraduate debating by the reanimation of one of the recently extinct clubs is a project which should find many supporters. It should especially commend itself to those who are taking courses in argumentation and in public speaking, for such a club will provide the opportunities for informal debating which a College course cannot afford...
...early, we believe, to attempt to impress the members of 1913 with the importance and value of these things. Phillips Brooks House itself is a centre of philanthropic, religious and social interests which should commend themselves to many students in the University. To make its enterprises successful it needs a large number of enthusiastic and persistent workers from every department. In athletics the new class has the enviable record of 1912, with its four victorious teams, to follow. Undergraduate papers and magazines, musical and dramatic organizations, debating clubs,--all these offer unequalled opportunities for the use and development of special...
...call issued by the Prospect Union for men to carry out its plans for reaching the workingmen of Cambridge, for whose benefit the Union was founded, will commend itself to many undergraduates. During the past eighteen years, the Prospect Union has been doing a valuable service to the community by affording mutual and helpful contact between laborers of Cambridge and Harvard men. This has resulted not only in giving certain members of the University a better appreciation of life in that part of Cambridge of which they see but little and of building up through its members a positive influence...
...idea of forming a Wrestling Association at Harvard should commend itself at once to those interested in the sport itself and to members of University teams who desire some suitable means of keeping in condition during the year. At other universities the plan has met with great success. Regular teams have been organized with insignia similar to those in other branches of sport, and an intercollegiate tournament is held annually between Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania. At Yale there is a fairly large squad, and wrestling promises to become a permanent feature of athletics. So far there has been...