Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pick up a newspaper and learn just what is going on at any one moment, that we are prone not to take the trouble to develope real interest in large affairs. Twenty years hence, perhaps, when we are reading an interesting history of China, we may regret our indifference. History is being made next door, yet the interests of many of us are little more than wide enough to contain the football "dope" of the hour...
...critics we must admit that his play seems successful. The man who looks for a play of contemporary American problems or a masterpiece of dramatic unity and emphasis will probably be disappointed in "The Outsiders"; the man who wants an evening's entertainment--a "good play"--will not regret the price of his seat...
...fact that the Office grades are not the sole standard of election is perhaps a strong factor in this influence. But we think that it could make itself a still greater power for intellectual achievement if the suggestions made were adopted. It would be indeed a source of regret if the suggestion of a possible improvement should be interpreted as adverse criticism of so valuable an organization...
...supposed that some leadership, of a supreme order, might be of service to Harvard, and through Harvard to the country. Older graduates remember, gratefully, the good they gained from James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and other leaders of men, who were lecturers, and the regret they felt that Harvard did not employ John Fiske, J. H. Choate, J. C. Carter, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, J. L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Prescott, and others like them, as regular lecturers or professors...
...come back" with added strength and meet the expectation of its supporters. The undergraduate body also has an unusual opportunity to show that its enthusiasm cannot be shattered by reverses. Improved work on the part of the team, combined with strong undergraduate backing, should leave no cause to regret the outcome of the dual meet at New Haven...