Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regret to see a man specialize too much and confine himself to one subject. The greatest chance of these four years is to get a large liberalizing view of one's position among mankind...
...University to unite with Yale University in meeting the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in an athletic competition in this country next autumn, has been referred to the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. We appreciate highly the courtesy of your invitation, and it is with much regret that we feel obliged to forego the pleasure of the proposed competition...
...matter of general principle it seems to us that international student competitions would be best arranged either between two groups of universities fairly representing the general body of students in each country, or else between single universities on each side. We regret that you were not free to accept the invitation of the American Intercollegiate Association, and we are especially sorry, if any misconception as to our attitude in regard to that invitation influenced you in declining it. We should be pleased if, even now, you were disposed, with Yale's concurrence, to arrange for a competition on the basis...
DEAR SIR: - I regret that your illness prevented your coming to New Haven as you proposed doing in your letter of April 23. Your visit would have given me the opportunity of informing you of Yale's position with regard to a Harvard game next fall...
...Harvard men generally, which would prevent their meeting the Yale men next November in a spirit of generous rivalry. If, however, the feeling at New Haven is such that Yale is unwilling to arrange a game with Harvard for next autumn, the Committee can only express the general regret of Cambridge men that the two colleges must lose this opportunity of showing that they have the will and the ability to play football with each other in a friendly and sportsmanlike spirit...