Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME. Oct. 17). Upon this the War Department did not comment but ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers University...
Through the ages teachers have viewed with alarm, nodded with sadness, reported with regret. At New Haven, Conn., last week precedent and an electric light globe were shattered when an elert candidate for the Yale Daily News saw bad luck attend the careless exuberance of his teacher, used the printed word to tattle...
...blocky, curly-headed man inquisitively. Mr. Young had a reputation for diffidence. When President Coolidge appointed him from comparatively obscure Minnesota to be Board governor, Mr. Young had said: "I consider it a great compliment the President of the United States has paid me. I hope he will never regret the confidence he has placed in me." When asked to what he attributed his rise from bank messenger to Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis and higher, during 27 years, he had answered laconically: "Observation and hard work." That was platitudinous...
...well as of quadrangles. The actors will be real students, and yet they are not obliged to wear the pictorial slicker or the loud sweater that speaks. The millennium is nearing when England's well known love of fair play has reached her film companies. One learns with regret that Oxford students do not anticipate with pleasure a romance whose consummation would come on the steps of the chancel. Little do they know how one great love was knitted in the corridor of Stillman Infirmary...
...students regret that their professor is 70 years old this year and by a University of Vienna rule must retire. Another rule allows him a year of grace...