Word: commendations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commend the article on foot-ball in Sunday's Boston Herald to the attention of our friends at Yale...
...those of the outside world who are wont to rail at the jeunesse doree and the "petted aristocracy" of our colleges, and particularly of Harvard, we commend as a very instructive instance of the much talked of fastidiousness and aversion to manual labor on the part of collegians, the occurrence of last Saturday forenoon on Holmes field, when, manfully seizing shovels and scrapers, two hundred Harvard students applied themselves with a will to the labor of clearing the entire field and benches of snow. This, it should be remembered, was a labor purely voluntary on their part and performed without...
...Williams Argo (Vol. II., No. 10) we cannot help thinking in literary merit-in lightness and finish of style throughout-surpasses all of our exchanges. We commend it to our readers as very nearly a model college literary journal...
...novel offer of prizes for the greatest degree of physical development, which a gentleman connected with the university has made, as explained by the president of the Athletic Association in another column, is certainly an experiment that has much to commend it. It conclusively proves that Harvard College takes a direct and official interest in the question of physical as well as intellectual education of those under her care. The conditions of the offer are particularly well devised to promote excellence in this branch of education, as well as to stimulate a healthy interest in athletic exercises in quarters where...
...know, a perfectly honorable man, and therefore incapable of wittingly serving to boarders at Memorial meat which was tainted or unfit to eat. If the contrary is true, and can be proved by our contemporary, we will admit ourselves to be mistaken, and commend the article in question as timely and just. Until this is done, however, we will give Mr. Balch the benefit of the doubt, and assume that, if tainted meat was brought into the hall, it was the result of an oversight and not an intentional act. Now as to the poor service complained of: There...