Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...example of the innate depravity even of the most cultivated and most gifted professional mind- as a convincing proof that professors like other men are mortal, a theory which has heretofore met with a very cold reception from the learned world at large. But this case we regret to record does not stand alone. It is but lately that the papers have been filled with the praises of a novel written by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous...
...should again like to urge, through your columns, all those who have not yet sent in their class lives to do so at their earliest convenience. To obtain an autobiographical sketch of each member of the class is one of the most important parts of my duty, which, I regret to say, remains in a great measure unfulfilled, surprisingly few lives having been handed...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I should like to urge members of the senior class who can supply any information of interest with regard to past members of '83, to kindly assist me by furnishing the same, since many of my circulars, I regret to say, have been totally disregarded by those formerly connected with the class...
...make them afraid. The only change in the programme this year will be the omission of the entertainment usually provided for the graduating class by the class next preceding it; and with this part of the festivities omitted, there is little probability that there will be any occasion for regret or anxiety on the part of the college authorities...
...regret very much," Governor Butler is reported as saying, "this political action on the part of the college, because I fear it may tend to impair its usefulness, for it is quite possible that the people of the Commonwealth may hereafter remember it to the disadvantage of the college and come to the conclusion to divorce the college and the State as our fathers divorced the church and State, and may inquire if there is any reason why the property of that institution shall be exempted from taxataxation, which is so burdensome upon us, while they use the alms...