Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with pain and regret that the CRIMSON refers to another of the time-dishonored practices which have been handed down from generation to generation of Harvard students. But just at this time some such reference seems absolutely necessary perhaps for the benefit of freshmen if of no one else. There is a certain class of men in college who seem to think that simply because they may have passed an examination, they are justified in making life hideous for a day or two to the poor unfortunates who are their neighbors, and who are still grinding for their own examinations...
...wish to remind our readers of the new regulation which requires all blue-books to be handed in before the first day of examinations. It is with a heavy heart and with deep regret that we broach the subject of examinations at all; but time moves on and the irresistable current of events brings us nearer every day to that great series of catastrophes that mar so large a part of two of the finest months of the year. As if to force upon us the consciousness of the nearness of these crucial tests, this new regulation requires us punctually...
...best where the worst should be and vice-versa, and in trampling the sense under the feet of most extraordinary similes and metaphors. There is good thought in this piece but it is so "hidden" that one finds difficulty in discerning it. About half way through the poem - we regret the inability to quote, - the metaphors clear away, and for some time there is real poetry we honestly think...
...next article "Two Types," is first, the thoughts of an anarchist and secondly the thoughts of an aristocrat: There seems to be little point to the piece, and we can but regret that such sides of human character, though merely fancied and only in a college paper should be put into print...
Last November I had the curiosity to study into this subject of the scholarships, and I regret to say that it is true that several men who have taken scholarships this year, ought not to have received them...