Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Civic Opera Company chose, to open its second and last Boston week, Montemezzi's "L'Amore dei Tre Re," the libretto by Sem Benelli, with Miss Garden in the role of Flora. It is one of the less familiar operas that the Chicagoans have seen fit to sponsor, and they have succeeded in earning it a popular reception...
...situation to the point of obscurity, and to this vice several of the contributors to the Advocate have fallen victims. The substitution of suggestion for straightforword declaration may become very effective when employed with moderation by such skillful hands as those of Kipling, who is probably the chief sponsor of the device; but since all followers are likely to exaggerate the tricks of their masters, it is a dangerous instrument for indiscriminate use. In the "Translation from the Navajo", the vicissitudes through which the author has to pass in his search for the realization of his dream are narrated with...
...University. Harvard has often been accused of aloofness and lack of cordial feeling toward other, less ancient seats of the higher education. She has failed at times to display the enthusiasm commonly exhibited elsewhere is receiving visiting teams; the premature refusal on the part of the Student Council to sponsor the conference might also have been interpreted as evidence of coldness. By fostering friendly intercourse between "courteous host and all-approving guest" --to use Byron's words--, Harvard will help to dispel any illusions the country at large may entertain as to her supposedly unfriendly attitude...
...formulating propositions for training tables. "H's" for championship teams, and so forth. If this group were represented on the Student Council by a member whose duty it was to champion the proposals of the smaller council, there is no doubt that there would be at least an active sponsor for the interests of the lesser sports...
...epithet "Big Three" in football came unsought for and unasked. So far as we may speak for the appellation we did not sponsor, the reason for it appears to consist in the fact that of all educational institutions who have consistently set forth teams of the highest caliber, there are no other three who have, by reason of an inevitable bond of sympathy shared in common, liked best to beat each other. --Yale Daily News...