Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...behalf of the Boat Club, the Executive Committee will present Commodore Boardman with a memento in recognition of his kindness in offering the use of his yacht at the race...
...DEAR SIR, - I trust that you will forgive my not having returned an immediate answer to your kind letter of November 16, but I felt it was a matter which could not be settled off-hand. Although I am sure that I can assert, on behalf of the University, that they are most ready to acknowledge the spirit of Harvard in wishing to come over to England to row a match, and feel most flattered by it, yet at the same time the difficulties of getting together anything like a representative eight to row in August are very great...
...negative. This at once made the meeting an utter waste of time, as far as making arrangements with Yale was concerned, for her delegates could do nothing about playing with fifteen men until, they said, "a meeting of the College was called and the matter discussed." Mr. Camp, in behalf of Yale, challenged Harvard to a game with eleven men. This was flatly refused. Princeton, through Mr. Ballard, then challenged Yale to a game with fifteen men, which was declined by the latter...
...quartette of Williams will give a concert during the spring vacation, in New York City, in behalf of some charitable enterprise...
...behalf of the College we would thank the Nine and the Crew for the self-denial and public spirit shown by them in giving up their vacation for the sake of the interest which they respectively represent, and in spending the week in hard work. The record of the Nine, which we publish in another column, shows that already their efforts are being rewarded; and the Crew's prospects of success seem to have been much improved by the faithful practice which they have been taking twice a day, while the rest of us were enjoying our short rest...