Word: support
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football team will be assured of good undergraduate support in the game with Michigan, as indications point to a considerable exodus to Ann Arbor over the weekend of November 9. The H.A.A. stated yesterday that over 500 members of the University had applied for seats by the time applications closed on Wednesday evening...
...this bill must again go through the Senate, to be attached to the present Tariff bill: then it goes into a conference of three members each from the Senate and House. Finally, the bill must be passed by the House of Representatives. If Senator Cutting can get the proper support, the bill should go through without any trouble, as it has an excellent start gained from its victory in the Senate...
...resolves itself largely into clever trading. On the other hand, the better the game becomes as a game, the less effective it becomes as a course in finance. It does illustrate, in an elementary manner, the fact that a bank can issue more notes than it has gold to support and also the fact that coal and iron and manufactured products are just as truly wealth as is gold. But it would be a queer idea of business which would involve the House of Morgan trading Standard Brands for the House of Mellon's Aluminum Co., both...
Scared Football Players. At Tuscaloosa, Ala. (not to be confused with Tuskeegee, Ala., site of the Tuskeegee Institute for Negroes), the University of Alabama football squads were practicing last week on a rainy, soggy field. Football is their very serious occupation, for every university student pays $13.50 for the support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when...
...arguments most frequently heard in support of intercollegiate athletics is the fact that they offer an opportunity for contact and understanding between the undergraduates of the various institutions involved. Just how effective the usual type of football weekend is as a good will tour will always remain a bit of a problem, but certain it is that there are potentialities in this direction which deserve development...