Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Schurman of Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...that Thursday of this week is the annual Day of Prayer for Colleges? To one, a graduate of another institution where the day is always observed by special services, and has been a marked occasion many times in its history in its religious effect, it is a matter of regret that Harvard, the mother university of America. founded for the education of ministers of the Gospel, and the scene at present of so much practical religious activity, should ignore this day so generally observed and so rich a blessing in the past...
...Dean of the Graduate School, James Mills Peirce has retired from that position, and this Board cannot allow the occasion to pass without expressing its high appreciation of his services to the Graduate School and to the cause of higher education throughout the country, as well as the regret of all its members at being deprived of a leader for whom they feel the warmest affection...
...when men of diverse characters are associated together, he always commanded the sympathy and cooperation of his colleagues on this Board. All have realized that he was working solely for the advancement of what is highest in education, and all the members of this Board would express their deep regret in parting with one who has bound them to him with the strongest ties of admiration and esteem...
...will be a source of great regret to members of the University that Father Fidelis will be unable to conduct the service in Appleton Chapel as he was invited to do. As a graduate of the College and a preacher of great eloquence his works would have an unusual interest for Harvard men. The policy of administration in the Chapel is well shown both by the invitation and its acceptance...