Word: commendation
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...course it is impossible to reform everything at once, but it is not unreasonable to insist that all possible measures be taken for an immediate beginning. We therefore commend the Advocate's article and hope with the reviewer that "it may reach the right ears...
Questions of student life occupy a prominent place in the Advocate of January 26. The article on the Student Council is a clear and forcible statement of the purposes and functions of that organization, and should do much to commend it to the student body and thus help to secure for it a high degree of efficiency. There is also a cordial word of welcome to the newly elected President of the University, with suggestions as to the policy he should adopt; but perhaps it will be as well to reserve such suggestions till he shall have taken his seat...
...congratulate the directors of the Dining Association on the apparent success of their new scheme, and heartily commend its advantages to members of the University...
There will doubtless be a very considerable number of students in the vicinity of Cambridge during the holidays. To all such men we heartily commend the invitation of President and Mrs. Eliot to the Christmas Eve reception in Phillips Brooks House. One often feels in our academic life the almost total lack of personal contact and fellowship with the older men of our community; and the comparatively few attempts which meet with any success at all in opening up this phase of life which is so full of benefit for both the mature and the growing members of the University...
...skating. Would it not be possible to flood a part of the tennis courts or the field between Langdell and Pierce Halls? With proper care the ice would be in much better condition than on most ponds in the vicinity of Boston. Its convenience to most dormitories would commend it to many who have neither the time nor inclination to play hockey; and if the Stadium rinks are used for most scrub games, Holmes Field could generally be reserved for pleasure skating. A small charge corresponding to that made for the use of the tennis courts would probably be sufficient...