Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret that it should be necessary to again remind any seniors of the necessity of sitting for their class photographs. It is not fair treatment of the photograph committee nor of the other members of the class for men to delay their sittings until so late in the year. The work of the chairman of the photograph committee is irksome enough in any case, even when each member of the class does his part willingly; and when men shirk their share of the work and make it necessary for the chairman to continually remind them of their delinquency - a duty...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Permit me, through your columns, to thank those who have so courteously sent a prompt reply to my recent appeal for subscriptions to the University crew. These thanks, I regret very much to say, will not reach as many persons as I could have wished. Out of over two hundred and fifty blanks sent out by me but one hundred have been returned to date. Considering the fact that two hundred of these blanks were accompanied with stamped envelopes already addressed, the showing is a poor one. The freshmen, in particular, are very slow in answering this...
...Drinking habits in our American colleges are not so different from those in foreign universities. The speaker related his observations of the convivial side of student life at Oxford and at Heidelberg. He had early made up his mind to practice total abstinence and had never found occasion to regret his determination. There are perhaps a half dozen strong arguments in favor of total abstinence. The first is that of bodily health. The evidence of all workers, of athletes and of men of action is emphatic on this point. The tendency of later years in all fields of activity...
...Eliot, '81, H. M. Hubbard, A. F. McArthur and G. B. Dunbar of '82. H. Crawford, '83, and L. B. McCagg, '84. Among the invited guests were George Howland, superintendent of schools and one of the trustees of Amherst, A. A. Carpenter and Wirt Dexter. Letters of regret were sent by President Eliot, Secretary Lincoln, Prof. Child and others. Gardner G. Willard, '69, president of the club, presided. Mr. McVane being called upon, described the recent changes at Harvard. Referring to the finances, he said that the revenue in 1860 was $310,000, and in 1882 had reached...
Such are the scanty facts known of a man in whom we must all feel some interest. We only regret that more cannot be found, for, from his nature, his liberality and his "godlynes." they could but give added lustre to the institution that bears his name...