Word: commend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With one or two exceptions we can heartily commend the fairness of Yale's proposition. It expresses apparently a sincere desire to arrange games in base ball this spring. It also for the first time intimates that Harvard's cooperation in Yale's efforts to reform collegiate athletics is sought for. Had Yale seen fit, at the very beginning, to take Harvard into her plans, we venture to say that the two universities could have succeeded in adopting measures for purification, which would have been satisfactory to all. However, Yale did not see fit to do this; Harvard is nevertheless...
...this issue of the Monthly a real service will be done the university. We shall have an interesting, varied, intelligent account of a life which means every thing to college men and we heartily commend the number to the students...
...Association voted the following. with regard to the proposed religious building: Resolved, that this association heartily commend the action of Mr. Edwin H. Abbot and the class of '55 in their proposal to erect a religious building in honor of Phillips Brooks; first, because the erection of such a building was the earnest desire of the late Bishop, and second, because, as a memorial of him, it will keep fresh in the minds of the students of Harvard University the ideal to which he attained...
...idea of the erection and maintenance of a Phillips Brooks House, which is carefully explained in the letter from Mr. Abbott, published in another column should commend itself to everyone as an excellent opportunity to complete a work in which Dr. Brooks himself was so much interested, and for which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription...
...Resolved, that the students of the University of Pennsylvania wish to place themselves on record as in favor of any just legislation to eradicate existing evils in intercollegiate athletics, and we hereby heartily commend the plan suggested by Mr. Caspar W. Whitney in the issue of Harper's Weekly for January 28, 1893, as providing an effectual remedy for the abuse complained...