Word: support
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Aeronautical Society is to place entries in the races of the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournament calls attention to the increasing importance of aviation and the role it will play in the future. In a recent editorial, the New York Tribune states, "Undoubtedly the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournaments will receive government support. Should there be another war the colleges will be able to turn out hosts of trained eaglets of the type of Quentin Roosevelt and Hobey Baker, ready for service. Trained collegiate aviators will make the United States air service a real factor the next time it is called upon. The transcontinental...
...events the Aeronautical Society deserves the support of the University in establishing itself as a permanent institution, and it should be backed in its development, financial and practical, by the earnest co-operation of the undergraduates...
...four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer, but still the questioner would go away unsatisfied. The results did not seem to be there...
...Ardent support by the undergraduates is admittedly a prime factor in the success of any branch of college athletics, and is a thing to be fostered at all times. One class in the University has shown keen interest in backing athletics. The Freshman eight will accompany the University oarsmen to Annapolis tomorrow to meet the first-year boats of Princeton and the United States Naval Academy. There is but one thing that has made this a possibility, --the spirit of a class which has collected from its members the sum of $550 wherewith to send its crew to the Severn...
...appointment of the leader of the University's delegation to the Northfield Conference of 1919 is announced this morning in another column. This should serve to re-awaken many of us to a realization of the meaning of this Conference, and of the real importance of the heartiest support on the part of members of the University. In former years Harvard has made a creditable showing at the Conference, and has sent a large and thoroughly representative group of men to take part in its discussions. Fully seventy-five men are expected to respond this year to the call...