Word: commendability
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...offered "The Middle Group of American Historians", by James Spencer Bassett. The author, the publisher, the price will surely commend this book to your notice. Published by Macmillan at $3.25, Community Book Shop is pleased to present...
Perhaps we shouldn't have classed Mrs. Loring's book as a "Western novel". That may condemn it yet unread to many a reader. But it will commend it to as many more; so we will not retract...
...tatulent buffoonery which comes of labored writing. Almost invariably the editorials are of this quality; some of the jokes, too, are hammered out on solid, lifeless anvils. The skit entitled "The Freshman and the Two Gentlemen" and the first of a series of "Prominent Harvard Graduates" do not commend the Lampoon's flowing bowl. And the text of the first page is scarcely better...
...world and society are functioning normally. It is the duty of trained minds to reflect. These who have had the opportunity to study history should have a true perspective and a sense of proportion. They should examine the substance rather than the shadow. They should be as ready to commend as to denounce...
...speech and it is unfortunate that a university president should be so entangled in it. As a private individual, one can understand President Atwood's action and sympathize with him, for no one cares to have his profession abused. But as the head of a university, one can not commend it. Such circumstances put an officer in an extremely awkward position; he hears that a man whose views he distrusts has been asked to lecture, and he objects to having those views placed before the students who are his charges. Yet if he forbids the lecture before it takes place...