Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is undoubtedly true in matters involving discipline and undergraduate morale. No true educator could be found today to hold that any such reform can ever be effectively instituted without the sympathy and support of the students themselves. The question of cooperation in strictly educational problems is not so clear. For concrete proof of success of such a policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student...
Having been removed by his position on the bench from political activity, he is free from factional party entanglements, and would have the support of a militant and united party. Born in Kentucky, educated in Tennessee and Virginia, a citizen of Tennessee for many years before coming to the East, he was invited by President Roosevelt to come to Washington as assistant to Mr. Bonaparte, then Attorney General, to apply his genius for the law to the work of dissolving the trusts...
...returned to his journalistic tutor, Publisher Hearst, in the capacity of feature writer. One of his first offerings was a lengthy autobiographical piece blaming Mr. Vanderbilt Sr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt for their son's failure. They promised him, he said, three millions "out of my inheritance" . . . then withdrew support "and left me holding the bag." Hearstly screamers broadcast this implied perfidy, together with a picture of Mr. Vanderbilt Sr.'s yacht, Atlantic, and a touching reference to the $4,000 per day it cost to operate her. At the head of a column in his admittedly vulgar...
...then hopped into his car and canvassed the state for moral support as well as program advertising. Local gentility encouraged but the potential box-office patrons remained contemptuous. The first rehearsal was held last fall. In order to allay suspicion such more popular numbers as "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Peer Gynt," and Sousa's "Gridiron Club March" were promised...
...annual dance held each year to support the Circulo's scholarship awards will be given on April...