Word: regretable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rivier "left nothing behind it but regret that Paris had devoted itself to the pursuit of the American fox."-W. J. Henderson in the New York...
...that the upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking established attachment with the Georgian. And there will naturally and rightly be some concern about the fate of the Clubs. But if their place is equally well or better filled by the Houses, there ought to be no great regret if some of them at least do go out of existence...
There should not be any great cause for regret in such a change, inasmuch as the practice of Seniors living in the Yard is of comparatively recent origin and not a custom hoary with age as is generally supposed. Traditions become weighted with seeming importance through their long continuance, but they should not be allowed to interfere with real progress. It would be absolutely incompatible with the purpose and spirit of the House Plan to expect Seniors who had previously spent two years in one of the Houses to break the associations formed during this time and herd together...
...intense activities of the football field that the unfortunate and sometimes really sad events which result from this greatest of American games cut into the consciousness with especial keeness. The highly satisfactory performance of the football team last Saturday serves only to put a sharper edge to the regret that one of the outstanding members of that team should have met with grave injury while on the field...
With the football season drawing rapidly to a close I am assailed by my annual pang of regret that Harvard and Princeton are still at loggerheads in its day this encounter was buoyed up by an old and interesting tradition Football, like wine, is poor stuff until it has been aged. I would not go across the room to turn a radio dial for the sake of hearing Ohio State and Northwestern. Not, you understand, that these institutions are not admirable, but their rivalry is of much too recent a vintage to be very thrilling...