Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most exciting championship series of many years. The games which might have been expected between Ninety-six and Ninety-eight would have been of great interest to the entire College; but through the recklessness of comparatively few men, they must now be abandoned. It is also matter of regret that the class games must all in future be played on Soldiers Field, thought this is not so directly a result of the events on Monday. There is a lesson to be learned from the whole affair which we hope will be committed to memory...
...great opportunity which lies before you. University Extension is, I believe, destined to prove one of the greatest educational movements of the last quarter of this century. I consider it a high privilege to have been identified with its beginnings in the United States, and I sincerely regret that the pressure of other work which has the first claim on my attention does not permit me to continue my connection with...
With the renewal of activity in baseball and track athletics, Harvard men must think with great regret of the proposed abandonment of Holmes Field in the coming year. The field has about it all the charm of intimate association with the University, past and present. Its nearness to the Yard, its position in the midst of well known University buildings, and the tradition of athletic contests which for so many years have been held on it, serve to identify it very closely with the University. Harvard's victories in baseball and in track athletics have been won on Holmes Field...
...news from Harvard has been received with unusual interest at Yale during the past week. Deep regret is felt here at the radical action of the Harvard Faculty in reference to football - not only because of its probable prevention of the annual Springfield game, but because college athletics in general is injured by the official credence given by a university of Harvard's prominence to the misrepresentations and unjust attacks of the opponents of football during the past season. The attitude of the Yale Faculty will undoubtedly continue to be one of non-interference - a policy bred of confidence...
...first feeling aroused by this prospect will with many be one of keen indignation, and with all one of extreme regret; but the latter feeling will grow at the expense of the former. However distasteful the opinions of the Faculty may be, no one will question that they spring from a sincere devotion to the welfare of the University. It is, however our belief, as it has been, that the action of the Faculty is mistaken and ill-timed, and that with the present widespread disposition to reform intercollegiate. football, the game could actually be brought back to its proper...