Word: regret
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taking charge of the Magenta, and presenting this, the first number of a new volume, the Editors of '75 and '76 wish, first of all, to express their sincere regret that they must now be separated from the Editors, of '74, with whom the paper originated, and through whose care and ability it has taken a position so generally recognized in college journalism. Though separated from their predecessors in official position on the paper, the present Editors trust that they will never lack their interest and encouragement. Special care will be taken to preserve that freedom in discussion and temperance...
...regret that this letter was crowded out of the last issue, and trust that in future there will be no interruption of the series...
...those districts of France where meat is a rarity, on feast days the tables overflow with it. Course after course of it is brought on, and the guests eat to satiety. So it is in the United States with wines. It is in consequence a matter of regret that people do not more generally sanction the use of wine on the table and at home. No longer than because it was unusual, or because it was said to be wicked, would people insist on taking too much...
...Catalogue for 1874 was out somewhat more promptly than usual, we believe, - just before the holidays. It is as voluminous and expensive as the last, but is in many respects better adapted to supply the information required of it. We regret that our columns do not allow us space for a more extended notice...
...advantages which would result from such an arrangement, we think the writer is over-enthusiastic, and perhaps a little inclined to indulge - we quote his own words - in "distorted and visionary imagination." For instance, does he feel quite sure about that generous rivalry to which he makes allusion? We regret to say that our remembrance of the scenes in the Massasoit House on the night after the last regatta pictures anything but a condition of "communion and fellowship" between some of the principal contestants. And is that ambition a laudable one, which allows a Princeton or a Harvard...