Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee voted to recognize Polo as a minor sport on the recommendation of the Student Council. Action pertaining to the financial support of Polo was deferred until a later date...
...departments of Harvard education are now supported by endowments except athletics sufficient proof that alumni are interested in Harvard education merely as such. Why should athletics be disinherited and thrown upon their own support for existence? Science and philosophy are not so treated. Surely this distinction is made because athletics have been looked upon as not constituting an integral part of the educational process. Under the present system coaches feel constant pressure to concentrate upon a few men in order to produce winning teams. Athletics have not been general enough to justify an endowment. As Mr. Arthur Howe, former Yale...
...reluctance, but moved toward that end adroitly. He offered the Blum faction two or three cabinet posts under him; few enough so that they could not dictate or obstruct the policy of the cabinet, yet a sufficient number to make them "responsible" for Government acts and force them to support the cabinet in the Chamber...
This offer did not appeal to M. Blum. He felt that with a little more obstruction he might force President Doumergue to ask him to form a cabinet. He announced that he would support M. Briand only if seven members of his faction were given practically all the important cabinet posts. M. Briand majestically refused so absurd a demand, refused to continue to form a cabinet at all, washed his hands publicly of the whole affair...
Because Bishop Kedrovsky derived his authority from the Soviet Government, Bishop William T. Manning called loudly upon Christian Churches to support Platon, the anti-Bolshevik. A new claimant arose in one Adam Phillipovsky, a big, bearded man with a voice that could make the windows of a church or a police-court shiver. He entered suit to obtain the Cathedral and all that went with it. Convinced that by this piece of deference to the curious laws of a quaint country, all that he wanted had automatically accrued to him, he enlisted a Bomb Squad from the Manhattan Police Department...