Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Formerly a Democrat, he resigned from his party last week, since it had come to oppose his consistent championship of "the military" against "the politicians," an attitude which has won him the strong support of Old Soldier von Hindenburg...
...three years, the drive in Harvard University has been a notable failure. This has undoubtedly been due at least in part to faulty organization, to the inefficient manner of conducting drives before the adoption of a Student Council Budget. The question is pertinent, however, whether, whether this lack of support does not spring in some measure from a lack of confidence both in the aims and in the achievements of the Student Friendship fund. The collection of the Budget this year has contributed notably to the ultimate success of the new plan, but in its expenditure there is an equally...
...Student Friendship Fund of the World's Student Christian Federation is a charity that has for some years appealed to American students for support. Individual drives have been conducted in most American universities every spring. This year the national drive is about to begin, with a goal of fifty thousand dollars for American students to contribute, with two thousand dollars more needed for office work and publicity expenses in this country...
...intention. The operation of the Fund in Russia is a case in point, where little money is sent in the first place, and where, on the other hand, there is said to the discrimination in favor of certain economic and religious creeds that are not universally accepted, and whose support entails more moralizing and disagreeable proselytizing than it entails friendship and understanding...
...avoidance of religious creeds and prejudices. Its teachers and its students certainly represent no unanimity of attitude on religious questions. A contribution to the Fund from Harvard University might presuppose something very much akin to such unanimity. Especially unwarrantable would the contribution appear since the Fund is designed to support a Committee Meeting to plant "the religion of Jesus" in India, a meeting "which makes demands upon the intelligence and the abilities of Federation members in excess of any other meeting so far held-so very beautiful, so very potent is the idea of an international student gathering...