Word: thanks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish, in behalf of the executive committee, to thank most heartily, for their efficient aid, the assistant treasurers of last year, Messrs. Agassiz, Baylies, Chapman and Sexton, of the class...
...close, permit me through your columns to express to the students at Harvard the gratification with which all Columbia students regard the great friendliness which has grown up between the two colleges; and in behalf of my fellow-students to thank you all for your always courteous treatment, which causes us when we are defeated by you, although feeling badly for ourselves, nevertheless to rejoice that there is one more feather for Harvard...
...showing the tribulations of tennis players in the vicinity of the cricket crease. In several cases men have been struck by stray balls, while a constant fear is felt every time that a sharp "clip" is heard. In the midst of this danger and with vociferous calls of "thank you" from the cricketeers, the tennis man's life in that vicinity is not always happy...
...Tennyson, through his son Hallam, has replied to the temperance society which recently forwarded him a resolution expressing regret at the "drink" passages in his new song. "My father begs to thank the committee," the son writes, "for their resolution. No one honors more highly the good work done by them than my father. I must, however, ask you to remember that the 'common cup' has in all ages been employed as a sacred symbol of unity, and that my father has only used the word 'drink' in reference to this symbol. I much regret that it should have been...
...MORROW brings, rain or shine, the game with Yale. In behalf of the Team we thank the College for the general support which it has given this fall, and especially for the enthusiasm evinced by two hundred men having signed for tickets to New Haven. What we may expect with the Yale team is a hard-fought, fiercely contested match; what we trust we may expect of the spectators are actions which are consistent with emulation rather than enmity. The Eleven has our most sincere wishes for success...