Word: support
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...amount of money collected. Possibly subscriptions are necessary for Freshman teams, but it has long been felt that they should be abolished as regards University athletics. With this move of the track management the crew will be the only one of the major teams left which derives its support in this way; and although we feel that the system should not be continued, the crew certainly has more claim upon it than any other sport because of large expenses and absence of gate receipts...
...most promising development during the last decade has been the increased interest and support of the graduates; they will be needed in the near future. The growth of the University is threatened, and with decreased enrolment their financial support may be necessary to maintain the standards of scholarship. President Eliot in closing congratulated his successor on "the sure growth of the influence of the University throughout the land, not only to foster art, literature and science, but also free institutions in which will lie the power and strength of our country...
...churches, until none now hold a position of influence or are able to provide comfortable circumstances for their pastors. The problem of giving an influential position to a minister is largely analogous to doing the same for a teacher, which has been accomplished to a great extent by state support. This, however, is impossible in the case of a clergyman, because a state religion is forbidden by the Constitution. The benefit which teachers derive from state support is surpassed to no small degree by their support by large endowments, and it is here that we find...
Since the Harvard Mission was first organized at the meeting at the Wayside Inn in 1904, it has raised $800 annually for the support of E. C. Carter '00 in India, and has helped in placing some ten other men in missionary work in foreign countries. Now that Mr. Carter has returned to this country to be in charge of the Y. M. C. A. student department in the United States, the mission will turn its energies to new work. Plans have been nearly completed for a new undertaking. It is expected that in May Mr. Jacob Riis will give...
Charles Perkins in later life was a great railroad owner, but as a young man could not afford to go to college, as his mother depended upon him for support. As the successor of Charles Lowell in the control of the railroad at Burlington, he received his first experience in railroading. It was upon his advice that the first line across the state of Iowa was built. Throughout his career he always commanded respect for himself and his road by consideration and kindness for all those with whom he came in contact. In the capacity of officer of a bank...