Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function of thus helping to create a more social atmosphere in the Law School, the Chancery Club has the support and approval of President Lowell and the Law Faculty. The President has always expressed himself in favor of getting the students of the University together socially. A member of the Law School Faculty said at one of the early meetings of the Club that, although he was not in favor of doing away with classroom work, he felt that it should be supplanted by discussion of the law among the students themselves, an opportunity for which is offered by such...
...News in its 1927 Board platform advocated "Support to the Harvard CRIMSON project for a reduction of the public's virtual control of college football. We favor the plan in principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
...only recently emerged from the murk of the past to be the leading non-professional spring sport, has been asked many times. The answer is that lacrosse had to be remade, and it took time. It needed feasibility in its mechanics. It could not be too expensive to support. Its dangerous features had to be eliminated, and as a college sport, it had to be made capable of being learned with a considerable degree of expertness in a reasonable length of time, that is, in two or three years...
...Origin of Species by the Major's late father, Charles Darwin. Their horridest fears were stirred when they discovered that the "eugenic reform" demanded by the major is a law penalizing individuals who bring into the world a greater number of children than their income will permit them to support decently...
Howard Elliott, president of the Harvard Overseers and of the lately-created Harvard Fund Council-not a "drive" organization but a permanent institution through which Harvard alumni will contribute annually in small amounts to the university's development and support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford...