Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report says) it was withdrawn. This merely means that the official delegates from Harvard took it upon themselves to assure Harvard's sympathy to Yale. In the eyes of the majority of the Harvard spectators, the game was fairly and plainly Princeton's, and the referee (we say with regret as Harvard men) was either partial or incompetent. It would be most unfortunate should Princeton get the impression that all Harvard men think differently...
...regret to see that the management of the foot ball association has been as yet unable to shake off that remarkable apathy which has been so conspicuous during the past season. With our overwhelming defeat at the hands of Yale, the officers of the association seemed to be of the opinion that their so-called labors were at an end. It seems to us, however, and we think the college will agree with us, that now is the very time that at least, some energy should be shown by their half hearted management. The question at issue...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -We hear with greatest regret that the branch of athletics, which of all others had engaged the interest of the college through many years, is now threatened with a most inglorious end. There may be many objectionable features in the game of foot ball "as it is now played," but they are features in many instances productive of more good than harm...
...contrary to the spirit of independence and intelligence in which we pass our college lives-and we think it right that these reasons should be made known before any hasty criticism of their action is attempted. We feel confident, however, that the students as a body will regret to find the faculty interposing in their sports and saying that such and such games shall be played, and such and such games shall not be played...
...Henry Vane, and during his auspices, that the college was instituted by the Massachusetts Assembly, which it has been said, was the first body by which the people through their representatives, ever gave their own money to found a place of education. John Harvard himself, the gentleman continued, would regret that the inscription on his statue should imply the slightest want of recognition of the fact that, long before he had ever set foot upon these shores, the magistrates of the colony had taken formal steps to establish a seat of learning, to which they subsequently assigned his name...