Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make such changes as seemed necessary, has fulfilled its duty by simply asking for another postponement of the entire question. As this committee had almost a month to accomplish its work and as the faculty had already granted us one delay, this last request was naturally refused. We regret that inter-collegiate foot ball has been prohibited, and this regret is but intensified when we are informed that to all outward appearances, every effort was not made by the students' representatives...
...regret that the Index for this year has not yet made its appearance. "Someone has blundered," and this year it is the printer, we understand. But whoever it is, the misfortune is none the less a misfortune. Such a book as the Index intends to be, should be in the hands of the students as early in the season is possible, and we do not believe but that it is possible to publish it much easier than is the case at present. Never, we believe, has the book been as late as it has this year. It is quite probable...
...Yale Record, with the usual confidence, breaks forth with an editorial as follows: "We congratulate the eleven upon once more securing the championship, and only regret that a complication of technicalities should delay an official announcement of the fact...
...been with great regret that I have observed the position which the Shakspere club is contented to occupy. There appeared in the CRIMSON a short time ago a communication which advanced the claim that a society constituted as the Shakspere club is, cannot meet the oratorical requirements of a great college, and recommended the formation of an intercollegiate oratorical association. While I do not consider this recommendation suited to the requirements of Harvard, in view of the excellent instruction in elocution at present furnished to the students, yet I do believe that a higher educated power of oratory...
...matter of regret that the University has not the means to enable it to secure the delivery of a greater number of public lectures by men eminent as specialists or as writers, than at present. The opportunities offered at Johns Hopkins in this respect are far superior to those at Harvard, while at Cornell the instruction given by nonresident lecturers, is a prominent feature of the college curriculum. Harvard cannot take her just position as a university till free opportunities of this sort are offered. It is true that Boston, particularly by means of the Lowell Institute, partially fills this...