Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Will you allow me to express my regret at the action of the mass meeting on Tuesday night? Such vacillation proves how little public opinion at Harvard is worth. As matters now stand the undergraduates say to any rowdy or ldiot who may happen to think that daubing red paint is funny: "Have your joke if you must; we will pass resolutions of indignation-but don't let those frighten you; for we will pay all the damages of your vandalism, but will not allow you to be molested." This, in effect, is what the meeting of Tuesday means. When...
...recent number of the Yale News it is insinuated that Yale failed to get the Mott Haven cup last Saturday owing to 'reckless riding' or 'deliberate intention' of a Harvard entry in the bicycle race. We regret very much that the unfortunate accident in the bicycle race should be attributed to such causes, for the simple reason that there is positively, no ground on which to base such a stand. If there was any 'reckless riding' or 'deliberate intention' it surely was not on our side,-not that we wish to say that there was any on Yale's side...
Together with the rest of Harvard, we are pleased to learn that the money for the excavation of Delphi bids fair to be collected, but we regret that it has not already been done. The affair is in the hands of such enthusiastic men that it will certainly be pushed through. The request that the committee has made of men about to leave college will no doubt be appreciated and acted upon without delay; the rest of the subscribers to the fund have of course no objection to allowing the sums subscribed to stand over till the autumn...
...this vandalism will attach to us as a body, we therefore make all the reparation in our power by tendering to the College money, to be raised by public subscription among us, sufficient to repair, as far as possible, the damage caused by it, and by expressing our deep regret at its occurence...
...Society Logic" is a clever story. The difference between the conventionalism of the East and the free and easy manners of the West is well brought out, but many a reader will regret that Society Logic had to bring about the result that...