Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clubs are already very widespread and influential. The work has been done in past years and we are now reaping the benefits of it. The way in which these clubs come to be founded is a very natural one. Almost every student looks back upon his college life with regret, remembering it as one of the pleasantest periods of his life. Anything that serves to remind him of this time is desirable and these different clubs, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. afford the best means of bringing about this result. While this seems perfectly natural in regard to college life...
...held at the usual place yesterday morning, Hon. E. R. Hoar presiding. It was voted to concur in the election of E. L. Mark, Ph. D., Hervey professor of Anatomy, and W. L. Richardson, M. D., professor of Obstetrics. The board adopted a letter to Mr. Alexander Agassiz, expressing regret at his resignation from its membership. It was voted to print the President's report for 1884-85, also voted that it is advisable to establish a Peabody Professorship of Archaeology and Etymology in the University. The committee on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry presented its annual report...
...last N. Y. Clipper has a picture of Dixie on its front page. We regret that it does not do him justice...
...Tuesday afternoon the candidates for the Mott Haven team met in the gymnasium. It was a matter of great surprise and regret that no freshmen appeared to try for positions on this team. Freshmen should not believe that, because it is their first year at college, extreme diffidence in entering college sports is praiseworthy. The Mott Haven team has lost good men from '85, and it is absolutely necessary that their places should be filled. An observer in the gymnasium can see plenty of '89 men who are fit to try for the Mott Haven, and it is evident that...
...lingering year, with its '85, was sort of a thread holding the class to the college; but now that thread has gone, and the '85 man says, "I was graduated last year." But it is different with the senior of '86. He says, at once with pleasure and with regret, "I am graduated this year." Thus the coming of a new year seems somehow to make more of a change than it really does. The recent graduate is more a graduate, and the present senior seems more a senior than before...