Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the recess the Yale News took occasion to comment editorially on the increased democratic and class spirit at Harvard, and although their knowledge of conditions here at present and in the past was, as they stated, superficial, we nevertheless thank them sincerely for the sentiments expressed. After commenting on the large number of class smokers and dinners, Senior buttons and dormitories, the News suggests that the time has come when "in justice to Harvard" Yale men should drop the inherited prejudices which have existed and should recognize that after all both universities have more or less the same social...
...Paul's Society has undertaken to raise a thank-offering to be added to an offering now being raised among men of every diocese and parish in the country, and to be handed over in a lump sum to the Board of Missions at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Episcopal Church in America next October. The Society has sent out letters to churchmen in the University, stating that the thank-offering is to be devoted to extending the work of the Church at home and abroad, and to increasing its missionary force in churches, schools and hospitals...
...committee appointed to spread the Men's Missionary Thank-Offering in the University is composed of S. E. Morison '08, chairman, H. B. Barton '09, R. Bradley '09, W. S. Clarke 1G., E. S. Hale '09, P. Ketchum 2L., L. K. Lunk '09, E. G. Maclay '08, and E. K. Thurlow...
This was not, however, what struck me most in the occurrence. Seeking an opportunity to thank Professor Shaler afterwards, I found that he was out of town and when we met, after a week or two, it appeared that the whole affair had passed very much out of his mind, he saying frankly that he did so much of that sort of thing that he might easily have confused it with other events. He said that it was rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next...
...should like to thank the House Committee for doing so much of the Membership Committee's work. However, I would add that the members of the Membership Committee did not shirk their work, but realized rather that the House Committee, which practically ran the Union during last year, should have its own way in all matters of administration. D. A. NEWHALL. Chairman Membership Committee