Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Since my last letter Columbia has repudiated her lacrosse team, much to the delight of many and regret of a very few. The team, however, continued in practice and braced a little, but not enough to get back into the good graces of the students. Some of the lacrosse men themselves were glad enough to have their association abolished, for they perfectly understood the cause of so doing, and wished to rid the association of an obnoxious element which in a measure was responsible for the chronic defeat met with everywhere. No objection whatever is offered to their reorganization...
...Sultan invited Lord Dufferin, the British ambassador, to the palace yesterday, and expressed to him his regret at the affray on Sunday in Alexandria, and especially at the wounding of Mr. Cookson, the British consul, and the killing of the engineer of the British man-of-war Superb...
...matter of great regret to the entire college that the freshmen, by losing their game Saturday, have forfeited the right of taking part in the tree exercises on class day. However, although the action of the senior class may at first sight seem severe, it is now too late to think of rescinding their former vote. To give any such action of a class any weight, it must be thoroughly understood that their vote is decisive and final. To reconsider the matter now, would establish a bad precedent and would render any vote of a future class worthless. There...
...speaking of the recently published prize essays of the Civil Service Reform Association of Boston, says of the late Mr. W. A. Smith of the class of '80: "That of Mr. Walter Allen Smith, which took the first prize, is a paper which will intensify greatly the sorrow and regret at his early death; for a young man who could prepare so broad, so thoughtful and so ripe an essay, expressed in such an easy and happy style, was capable of great things, and his death is a loss to his State and his country...
...tremor of profound regret...