Word: support
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cambridge. The hall was fairly well filled, but there was a disappointingly small number of Freshmen present. Inasmuch as the concert was given for the benefit of the class crew, and this fact published in the posters, the number of Freshmen present was only a fair indication of the support that the crew has received so far this season. Of the three clubs, the Mandolin Club gave rather the best selections. They received the greates number of encores and the pieces were all executed with much precision and unity...
...writer, intimating that the Harvard undergraduate considers the war with Spain "unnecessary and unjust," and denouncing our law-makers as "unscrupulous," declares that it is yet necessary, under our faulty democratic government, to give the war an "unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers...
...fails signally in accomplisbing what he states at the outset is not difficult, "to define the really patriotic attitude for the undergraduate in the present crisis." Perhaps he believes that Harvard students feel competent to lay down the law as to the actions of the administration, or willing to support the nation with loyalty of a "possibly illogical nature." Perhaps he thinks the present Senior class will agree with him in his picture of the men they honored by refusing to withdraw their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under...
...must be remembered that while requiring a club organization to preserve its existence, the Weld of late has proved itself indispensible to the rowing interests of the whole University, and calls for universal recognition and support. If proof of this is needed look at the number of men now with the 'Varsity squad who were developed entirely by their Weld training. That only those who actively participate in a sport should be interested in it to the point of contributing toward it support, is illogical. Thus the debt of the club should not rest entirely on those...
...supremacy of duty to the family over duty to the state, the permanence of the family being a supreme object in the state. Under our own conditions then, it is clear that no one is justified in enlisting whose family is, or may become dependent on him for support...