Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...resignation came to the corporation without previous notice on the President's part and to the unanimous regret of the members of the Board. After two weeks of conference the resignation was accepted, the Board having, with the utmost difficulty, arrived at the conclusion that a proper regard for the President's wishes required them to relieve him of the arduous duties of his office. In so doing the members of the Board expressed their confidence in the President's unimpaired ability to administer the affairs of the University to the satisfaction of the Governing Boards and Faculties...
...more than liberal expenditure of time in helping others told upon the amount of his own literary production. Of his exhaustive studies, and widely-known translations, of Dante (which have international reputation as of foremost excellence) I need not speak; but serious students of the fine arts must regret that of books like "Church Building in the Middle Ages" we could not have had more. As a teacher of the History of the Fine Arts in Harvard University Professor Norton strove, by directing attention to the finest historic monuments, to awaken an appreciation of the nature and worth of beauty...
When the Athletic Committee requested the appointment of an undergraduate committee to confer with Faculty members and with the Athletic Committee on the present tangled situation, we expressed some regret that final action on the winter sport proposal had not been taken before a further move was contemplated. We did not intend, however, to cast any reflections on the wisdom or the necessity of the appointment of such a committee...
...with the utmost regret that we learn from some sources that the petition may not be received in the amicable and conciliatory spirit intended. From others we learn with pleasure that the Faculty is more than ready to meet us halfway. And so we are hoping for the best...
Much as we all appreciate the great amount of work falling to professor Sabine's lot, we cannot, but regret his loss for purely selfish reasons. But its recent action the Corporation made possible the retirement of the Deans from the Committee, but we entertained a sneaking hope and belief that their efficiency, and the prospect of less work in the future, would secure their reappointment. Now at least one place on the Committee must be filled by a new Faculty member, who will be just as ignorant of what is necessary as were the Deans when their athletic management...