Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...value of the experience which a man gets at Plattsburg. It is the best summer he can have. Not only do I believe it is an undergraduate's duty to go, if he can, but he is foolish not to take this opportunity. If he does not, he will regret it now, and probably all the rest of his life...
...many members of the regiment, and not many citizens of the neighborhoods which the regiment will invade in the course of its Sunday adventures, still hold to the Puritan idea of Sunday in all its ancient rigor. But there are still a great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment...
...full regiment of Harvard students, carrying the official colors of the University, the interest created in Cambridge is not surprising. And the creditable demonstration of an almost complete mastery of the rudiments of drill gratifies immensely those who are absorbed in the success of the undertaking. The only regret in regard to the proceedings seems to be on the part of those members of the Regiment who failed to attend. As 58 per cent, of the enrolled took part in the march, this element is smaller than might be expected on the first of these voluntary Sunday hikes...
There is one principal matter for regret--and only one--in the present number of the Advocate. Perhaps it is the well-established custom, or cherished privilege, of Senior editors to rest on their laurels. But when a class has so many good men in it as the class of 1916, and when those good men are so well represented on the Advocate staff, it is to be regretted that only one of them, Mr. Leffingwell, has contributed a signed article. Perhaps, however, the interesting unsigned editorial articles are to be credited to Senior editors...
...gradual sickening and death of the old elms during the past ten years has caused much consternation and regret, the cause of the trouble being undiscoverable...