Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...games, the character of the team and of its work has been such that the sport has suffered no detriment, but has followed out the same lines of development which have been influencing all branches of athletics at Harvard. For this gratifying result we have also the management to thank. The season in many ways has been an unusually difficult one; yet the management has brought the team through it with an exceedingly praiseworthy prudence and thoroughness...
While the opportunity yet remains, the CRIMSON wants to thank, in the name of the college, all the "coaches" who have generously given their services to Harvard during the past year. They have all been working for Harvard's ultimate success. Whether this success come in this year or in a future it matters not; in any case the university owes an overwhelming debt of gratitude to her graduates-to Mr. George Adams and Mr. Stewart for their work in the foot ball; to Mr. Smith and Mr. Thayer for their work in base ball...
...preachers to the University are just about to close another year of their work at Harvard; and we want to take this opportunity to thank them for what they have done. Their work this year has been broader than in any previous year and the effect on university life has been correspondingly greater. The new and better order of things began when, five years ago, the government of the University voted that the statute concerning religious exercises "at which the attendance of the students is required" be stricken out. Since that time the spirit of the undergraduates has changed greatly...
Although luck seemed to be against us at the Berkeley Oval on Saturday, we scored just as many points as Yale and Princeton put together. This is a victory of which Harvard may well be proud, and we wish to congratulate and to thank in the name of the college the men whose hard work and faithful training brought it about. They have earned the gratitude of the college, and may rest assured that they possess...
...about our team. It shows in the first place that the men themselves have worked hard and faithfully; it shows in the second place that the training has been admirably directed. For the first, then, of these fortunate circumstances we have the men themselves who compose the team to thank. The college cannot say enough in the way of congratulation nor do enough in the way of honor to them. For the second of the fortunate circumstances which helped win us the victory: namely the well-directed training, we have Mr. Lathrop to thank. His efforts has been untiring...