Word: regretted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the deepest regret that I bring these gentlemen down out of the clouds of pedagogical debate, and ask them, in the grand old words of the great Icelandic poet, Skjalmar Sverson: What are you going to do about it? It is with malice toward no one of them, and full charity for all of them that I classify them as utterly irrelevant to all collegiate affairs, entirely incompetent to face the problems they discuss in any practical way, and wholly immaterial to the progress of the universe. WILLIAM L. PROSSER...
...CRIMSON has perhaps wisely waited until after the Senior election to avow fair-mindedness regarding its communication column. This promise on the part of the CRIMSON is interesting, but not convincing. It seems rather a misleading defence of its past actions than a sincere expression of regret, as the conditions actually warrant...
...during the coming week a meeting of the H. A. A. will be held to decide upon the practical points of the spring athletics at the University. In a conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last night Dean Briggs said: "We do not wish it to be thought that we regret our attitude toward football last fall. Not at all. But now that the R. O. T. C. is firmly on its feet, I think that a somewhat formal system of athletics may once more be employed...
Anybody who has been to the Trophy Room of the Harvard Union recently must have noticed with much regret the wretched state of dilapidation which surrounds it. In the first place, the room where our athletic treasures are stored is out of the way on the second floor of the not too frequented building. At other colleges the emblems of victory are preserved in a prominent place. But what we notice most particularly is the condition of the banners and flags which decorate the walls. They resemble ancient battle devices. They are torn and tattered and falling absolutely to pieces...
...says in his book: "The Harvard Overseers, in fact, are, above all, men of conspicuous social standing; the proportion of intellectuals among them is slight, and many regret it. This merely expresses the fact that the dominant concerns of the graduate body are not of the intellectual order. They deeply love thier University, interest themselves in its prosperity, provide for its material support with the utmost generosity; but in the memories of youth which attach them to it the intellectual interest plays only a part that is effaced...