Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...contributions made to the Phillips Brooks House Association during the week were collected Saturday afternoon. Although the total amount of the collection was less than the corresponding amount last fall, the committee consider that the work done was thoroughly satisfactory, and desires to thank all who helped to make it so. If there are still men who desire to contribute any articles, they are asked to leave them at Phillips Brooks House as soon as possible...
...second team during the season of 1909. The second team has developed fully as much as the University team and it is owing to the continued progress of the former that the latter has gained great strength. "You have stuck to the game, and I want to thank you for keeping the Harvard spirit right...
...behalf of Harvard University I want to thank you, Sir, and the other Delegates from Foreign Universities, for the honor you have done us by coming here. The ties of a common scholarship should be among the closest that bind together mankind, for they, know not time, place or nationality. The bond is universal and eternal. Men eminent by your achievements in literature, in history, in law and in science, bring us greetings from the older world of learning, and from our neighbors North and South, which we shall ever remember with pleasure and with pride...
...close of the last lecture in Government 1 in the New Lecture Hall yesterday morning President Lowell made a short address. This was the last lecture which he will deliver to the undergraduates and when he finished, in answer to the applause of the class he said "Thank you, gentlemen, very much. There is one saddening thought about this, as it is the last lecture I shall ever give...
...thank you for the greeting. You do not know what a change this is for me; giving up the pleasant life that I have thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the university should be distinct and separate. I do not sympathize with those ideas...