Word: thanks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reminder that some other door must remain closed to those who have not acquired such an education. [Applause.] Said a rich man to me not long ago, as we were passing the Club House: "I would give half of my fortune if I were eligible for admission there," but, thank God! there's one thing in New York that money can't buy. And I have no doubt that the existence of such a club has caused many successful men to regret their lack of college advantages who otherwise would not have thought of it and who will guard against...
YALE COLLEGE, Feb. 18.MY DEAR SIR: For the copy of Regulations for Inter-collegiate Athletic Sports, received February 16, I thank you very much. I thank you still more for the kind note accompanying the regulations. President Porter had not received any copy...
Maker of musical instrument, cheerfully rubbing his hands: "There, thank goodness, the bass fiddle is finished at last!" After a pause: "Ach, Himmel, if I haven't gone and left the glue-pot inside...
...play the long anticipated Thanksgiving game. But it must be remembered that this is entirely owing to the courtesy of the Yale team, who have, in order to have a game with us, voluntarily agreed to conform to the arbitrary rulings of our faculty committee. We desire to thank Yale most sincerely for the honorable feeling that prompted this concession, a feeling that is most aptly expressed in the editorial from Friday's News which we reprinted entire in yesterday's issue. But even this latest move of the committee has not bettered in the smallest degree the aspect...
...give us one advantage and another which the students of other colleges enjoy. It is, therefore, particularly pleasant to occasionally congratulate ourselves on the points in which we are more favored than others. Most of us take the reading room very much of course, and hardly think to thank the powers that be for the pleasure and profit we derive from it, or realize that even such a well equipped college as Harvard has no such institution. A recent editorial in one of the Harvard papers laments that "While Yale has a reading room of the very first-class, " Harvard...