Word: commendability
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...only give a personal opionion. Thus interest in the present is often crowded out by reverence for the past. Yet the present has its place even in study and any course or lecture on the present has its value. Mr. Copeland's lecture will cover neglected ground and we commend his efforts in this new line to all members of the University...
...wish to commend the work of the debating societies in the University to new comers. Last year the old Harvard Union was discouraged, and its successors are seen today in the New Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club. The rivalry between the two will without doubt intensify the interest in debate, and we are heartily glad that it should. Harvard has made an excellent reputation for herself in debating in former years. We have met Yale four times, and have each time shown ourselves superior to her. Last year the two debates were decided by boards of distinguished judges...
...confusion incident to general reading rooms is then done away with. Several copies are generally provided when books are in great demand and these copies are never taken away. These libraries form excellent supplements to the larger library in Gore Hall and their usefulness will at once commend itself to the students if proper respect is paid to their privileges...
...University is called to another petition to the Corporation for a new dining hall. The men whose names appear as promoters of the scheme are sufficient guarantee that all the student interests of the university are involved. Further than this Professor Shaler, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Bolles and Professor Bartlett commend the plan heartily. They stand ready to use their influence with the Corporation provided the petition receives a sufficient number of signatures...
...withstanding our conviction of the reasonableness of our position since it does not commend itself to you, and since you must desire as strongly as we do to avoid the fruitless outcome of last year's games, we propose to you to refer the decision as between your plan and ours to two graduates, one from Harvard, to be chosen by us, and one from Harvard, to be named by you. In case the two graduates so chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a third person, not a graduate of either University, to act with them, and the decision...