Word: commendability
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...know that the change will commend itself to all who have work in the library and urge all to be sure to sign today. The change will be made only on condition that a sufficient number desire...
...Adee and Professor Ames also discussed the idea of an arrangement between the two universities either for one year or longer in all sports. Professor Ames assured Mr. Adee that such an arrangement would commend itself to Harvard, and Mr. Adee expressed himself as desirous of the consummation of such a plan. When they separated Professor Ames understood Mr. Adee to say that he proposed to see whether the Yale students would take the same view that they themselves had taken upon the subject. Nothing was said about any communication from Mr. Adee after he should have talked it over...
...communication appeared in your columns before the Christmas recess setting forth the advantages of a series of afternoon lectures open to the members of the University and their friends. Such a scheme has much to commend it, and ought not to be lightly dismissed. Popular lectures at a convenient hour of the day would be an agreeable and legitimate addition to our University curriculum and could not fail to attract widespread interest. The audiences at evening lectures and readings are necessarily limited to members of the University and the Cambridge public. Vespers and the glass flowers are at present...
...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...