Word: commendation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the fact that anything is done or left undone in the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge is in itself sufficient reason that the same thing be done or left undone in the contest between Yale and Harvard. The article, however, contains good and pertinent ideas, and we commend it to the attention of the Executive Committee...
...Ethics they noticed "an appearance of slightness and vagueness which is perhaps inseparable from the mental condition of many of the young men." Forensics they discovered to be only another name for themes, and they found (what we had not realized) increasing interest in theme-writing. They commend the plan of requiring each theme to be entirely rewritten, and can see no reason why themes should not be required of Freshmen and Seniors. They think that in Political Economy the field should be enlarged so as to include "a survey of the political arrangements under which men live, instead...
...graduates who have written to us on the subject. We have every confidence, as we have often said, in the present captain of the crew, and if the exact state of affairs at the boat-house was thoroughly understood we believe that those who criticise now would then commend...
...could be ordered in England and paid for from some outside source, a boat could be built here, - using the English shell, to a certain extent, as a model, - and the race would then be rowed in whichever proved the faster. This is the only safe course, and we commend these facts to the serious consideration of those who have written to us, urging us to use England as the source of our boating materials. Their suggestions would be promptly adopted if the means were supplied...
...could a veil thy beauty pure commend...