Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have done their best and that has been wonderfully well. The team was one of the best that has ever represented Harvard, but luck has been against it. Now let every Harvard man stand by the team loyally and show them and the world that we appreciate their efforts, thank them for their work, and are prepared to support them heartily another year...
...young man's name on the following morning. It was a subordination of business enterprise to humane sentiment highly to be esteemed. Any deed that tends in the least to mitigate the heavy affiction awakens in us all the warmest gratitude. In the name of the University we thank the Boston press for their kind consideration...
...creation of this year's nine out of the material afforded. There has been an honest effort to make the best out of unfavorable circumstances and to represent the University in creditable fashion at least. This has been done, and we feel that there is occasion rather to thank Captain Wiggin and his men for what they have succeeded in doing than to disparage them because they did not meet with fuller success. A loyalty which is sincere will be appreciative of good work no less in defeat than in victory...
While we must feel very much disappointed at the result of the game we have one thing to say which gives us as much pleasure as it would if Harvard had won. We can thank the team for the faithfulness which has kept them up to their work through thick and thin, and the coaches for the assistance which they have given in developing the material. The line of defeats which Harvard has sustained has logically produced as much effect in one direction as the line of victories has for Yale in another. Against the discouraging influence of these defeats...
...graduates last Friday it is fair to expect a close and exciting game with them today. No one can feel more keenly than we the debt which the students owe the graduates for the time and attention which they devote to the training of the team. We can thank them most heartily for the spirit which prompted them, out of training as they were, to line up against the 'varsity for two ten minute halves. Yet we cannot but feel that in Friday's game, especially toward the end, the game was interesting rather because it was amusing than because...