Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every respect the Harvard of today is better than was the Harvard of the past. And therefore we feel that its prosperity is merited. We regret only that the proportion of students in attendance from the West is not larger than it is, although of course it is a tribute to the college that the nearer people are to it and the better they know it, the more strongly do they believe in it and trust it. The President the other day called our attention to the fact that in the present freshman class there are only three from Chicago...
...Wendell Baker, who may be justly called the champion amateur sprint runner of the world. The honor to Harvard and the pride which we must all feel alike in this success may alleviate in some degree the melancholy aspect of our other athletic sports. The college has only to regret that Mr. Baker has decided to allow the end of his college course likewise to end his career as a runner...
...death his classmates have lost one whom they could always have been proud to claim as one of their number, and whom they could always remember with affectionate regret; but to those who knew and loved him his loss will be irreparable; and his cheery nature, his generosity and his frankness, will always be precious and bitter memories which will last a lifetime...
...college will regret to learn of the sale of Hamilton Park to parties who will probably cut it up into building lots. The park comprises fifty-one acres, and for the past twenty years has served the college as a general athletic field. Several years ago efforts were made to buy it for the college, but the owners were foolish enough to demand an unreasonably large price, which, of course, the college was unwilling to pay, although it would have made a far more desirable athletic field than the one we now have. - Yale News...
...faith. In the light of these great changes, it is wise that compulsion in religious matters here should have been done away with forever. The CRIMSON'S position in this matter is too well known to require further comment. We think that the Overseers will have no cause to regret their action, and that Harvard University will become the gainer and not the loser...