Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the undergraduates was held on Wednesday, 11th February, to take action on a circular letter signed by committees of Williams and Princeton Colleges, inviting the attendance of delegates at a convention to be held at Hartford on the 19th, in regard to intercollegiate literary contests...
THOUGH our complaints are not always listened to, yet the reform of an abuse, now and then, encourages us to hope for consideration in future. Our present grievance is the gas in Holworthy, which seems so far to partake of the universal feeling in regard to the next two weeks, that instead of making light of it, it is subject to sudden fits of depression, varying in length from five minutes to an hour. The importance of remedying this defect will be seen by any one who considers the awkward situation of one who sits down to a night...
...Edward Everett Hale, who responded to the toast of our Alma Mater. He referred with much feeling to his college days, and advocated the keeping up of college feeling, and a community of interests among the students as sons of a common Alma Mater. He advised young journalists to regard matter more than form, and maintained that any one with something to say could express it. As an alumnus of the College, and an editor of distinction himself, his remarks were listened to with great interest. He was followed by Professor William Everett, who spoke of some of the peculiarities...
...committee are liberal and far-sighted in their treatment of physical culture, and this, together with the new projects in this regard of late agitated among the students, will undoubtedly lead to a better state of things. They recommend the erection of a new gymnasium, and even go so far as to suggest the purchase of marsh lands on Charles River, to be drained and diked in the interests of out-door sports. It is also proposed that the College, by the erection of boat-houses, encourage this branch of athletic exercise among the many. Before closing this review...
...successful in my endeavors, you should now have a clear idea of the state of public instruction in France and of the manner in which it is given. Without any circumlocution, without any false pride, I have shown you the defects of our system. Does this mean that I regard the French people as inferior to the other peoples of the earth? Not at all. I believe that our intelligence is as great, our mind as open, as that of any other nation in the world. Simply, we have never been able, or known how, to take advantage...