Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...satisfaction of saying "I told you so" about the sparring on Ladies' Day. And although the subject has been taken up before in our columns, yet now that the meetings are over, we should like to add a last word in support of the Advocate's position. We regret that few women have our keen appreciation of the fine points of the so-called manly art. Strange to say, those who have not been trained to recognize the purely artistic and gentlemanly side of such a contest, are, in their ignorance, very likely to deem it merely a brutal pounding...
...both championship games on neutral grounds, but both of these plans were defeated by Yale absolutely refusing to change the arrangement existing since '83, when Dartmouth entered the league. By this action a nine of skillful and gentlemanly players has been obliged to withdraw. Every Harvard man will feel regret that we have lost Dartmouth from among our annual visitors, and we personally express the hope that next season may bring about their return on favorable conditions...
...just so much. To be sure, the Williams team will undoubtedly do good work, but they can hardly be expected to do as well as the team which has heretofore represented Dartmouth. From a selfish point of view we have reason to regard this change with favor, but the regret at losing the old and well-known club will over-balance, in the mind of every fair minded lover of base-ball, any momentary impulse of joy which may spring up at the thought of our increased chances for a victorious season...
...expulsion, by the Director of the gymnasium, of the trainers who were present at the first winter meeting, was a most commendable action. Our only regret is that the action was not taken sooner. If the winter sports cannot be held without the introduction of Muldoonism, then they were better not held at all. Trainers have their places without doubt, but they do not belong in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Contests in sparring among gentlemen, to be respectable, must be free from the vulgarity of professionalism, and Harvard men are presumably gentlemen. We do not know by what means the trainers...
Here's a specimen of style: "The students have to regret that Professor Law is unable to give no more "prelims," but has recourse only to the weekly Monday quiz." - Cornell...