Word: commendation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Such a brilliant scheme will at once commend itself to the law-maker. Behind a barricade of sideburns, the "pro's" and the "con's" will be alike unrecognizable, and can slip by the watchers ere the latter can penetrate their disguises. It will, of course, be a trifle hard on the general public; many an old farmer on a sight-seeing tour will be mistaken for a legislator and questioned concerning the cotton-planter's trust or the Society for the Preservation of Indigent Africans...
According to a three column article in a recent edition of a Boston newspaper, a group of prominent graduates have expressed the desire to have a combined clock and bell tower erected in the Yard as a war memorial. This plan will at once commend itself to the undergraduate intelligence, for by it we may the more easily regulate our lives. In order that we may derive the full benefit from its establishment, we suggest that when the tower is in operation strenuous efforts shall be made to have it mark the important points in the undergraduate day. Beside...
...Wherefore, we commend unto the Circle of the Elders who forever labor that their charges may gather to the full the harvest of their studies without undue unpleasantness to the latter in the process thereof--we commend unto them the example of Doctor Choqqueguiran, our inspired instructor of logical disputation. It having occurred to him that his pupils were not entirely absorbed in the devolutions of his lectures he struck upon the happy thought of having his pupils demonstrate the workings of the principle of the syllogism by the acting of charades. Thereafter he discovered that the pupils waited upon...
Since 1883, Mr. Leavitt has been all but a college boy himself, joking, sympathizing and advising us, who are here today. He knew "the ropes" and he helped us to learn them too. When we were wrong he told us; when we were right he never failed to commend us, Despondent and discouraged have I entered his store; cheerful and wiser have I left. He knew us all; I think he loved us all. For years has he "rooted" for our teams only too willing to back them. Just the other day he said...