Word: support
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...
...proceeds of which will be given to the freshman crew. The annual Cambridge concert at Lyceum Hall will probably be given in the second or third week in May. At this concert a considerable amount of money will be netted for the freshman crew if the concert receives the support it should from the college, and especially from members of the freshman class...
...class also has a duty to perform. It is to give to the team the heartiest encouragement and the most generous financial support. Nothing will held the team more than to know that every well directed effort on their part has the hearty approval of the whole class. As for the nine itself, the captain must be able to rely upon his men, and the men must have the fullest confidence in their leader. From all these men the class and the whole college are expecting earnest and concientious work and an energy which will overcome all obstacles...
...better opportunities for quiet study could also be secured. The Evans library has proved of the greatest service to students of history and political science and by the proposed scheme the same advantages would be furnished to German students. The proposition is a good one and deserves the support financial and moral, of all interested in the study of German literature...
...Independence in Politics-a Choice" although on other points he has not met his opponent squarely. Taking the ground that "strictly speaking we are all foreigners in America," he shows that we have a "huge, ignorant vote" of Europeans and Africans which must be trained to an intelligent support of our institutions. This must be the task of active, educated men, "of vigorously independent minds," for an "enlightened public opinion alone can master the great race and economic problems" before us. The writer then goes on to show the great influence of public opinion in pushing measures of reform...