Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unadvised. Modern art where it treats life demands realism and we contend that realism only ceases to be real art when the emotion it excites are such as we afterwards regret as having relaxed our moral fibre. Judging "Kid" in this most serious way we cannot find that any one's imagination would receive injury from its perusal...
...this state of things must not be. The Church has blinded her eyes to this crying need for foreign missionary work and has magnified the need at home. So she sends one man into the foreign field while she keeps a hundred at home. No man will ever regret the day he leaves this or any other country to preach the doctrine of Christianity to the dying souls of the millions of heathen who have never known the name...
Today ninety-four bids her social goodbye to Harvard. It will bring unfeigned regret to hundreds of the students who are to remain longer in the University. Ninety-four has many members who, by reason of their stalwart manliness and refined gentlemanliness, it has been an education to know...
...should also like to state that the requests of the members of the Faculty for tickets have been complied with as far as seemed practicable. We regret that circumstances have forced us to cut down the applications in some cases very considerably. We have tried to see that each applicant's personal wants at least and, as far as possible, those of his immediate family, were provided for. Any tickets...
...question which presented itself to our minds was whether the means employed to realize this purpose were not too sweeping, whether the vote of the Corporation besides accomplishing its intention will not also cause considerable loss. There is a political party meeting of a character which we regret to see abolished,- the meeting in which the speakers, although strong partisans, explain in a delightful manner the principles and ideals of their party. The audiences which Harvard affords wishes not for flourishes but reasons, and in adapting themselves to this wish the speakers give such discussions of public questions...