Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret exceedingly that our recent celebration should have caused any feeling of bitterness in any of the invited guests present; that our Autocrat, the most genial of men, and, surely, the most delicate of satirists, should have been deemed the offender; and that the one to whom offense has been given is Princeton's honored head. We understand that Dr. McCosh is aggrieved over the stanza which we print in another column, over the fact that no Princeton representative received an honorary degree, and over Dr. Brooks' discourse of Sunday night last...
These are the only causes which Princeton has for complaint, and, as they both arose from misconceptions, we can, without loss of dignity, express our deep regret that they exist: but, that Princeton's president should dislike the liberal sermon of Phillips Brooks, the liberal oration of James Russell Lowell, and the liberal tone which characterized the whole celebration here, we can regret - only on his account...
...myself today in a company to which I am unused; and when I see the Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill, had the advantage of a collegiate education, a proof...
...concert of the afternoon was extremely delightful and the lack of space in the theatre for even one extra person, testified to its due appreciation. But we regret that something more appropriate to the day and commemorative of the college could not have been offered...
...great regret of the college community, Dr. Farnham will not lecture on Health and Strength during the coming year...