Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carrying on the campaign the committee has tried to emphasize the worthiness of its cause which is not, strictly speaking, of a charitable nature. The money is devoted to enabling the students to attain a point where they will be able to support themselves and not to furnishing them with a purely gratuitous college education...
...great dependence on hand-to-mouth financing which has been for some time its only source of revenue. It will also relieve the Dean's organization of the constant pressure to raise money for the current expenses of research work. Using the income from the dormitories to support the normal research activities, we can expand as opportunity arises from this into a number of special investigations on particular industries, to be financed by the industries themselves...
...held the moderate groups together against political extremists. The Socialists are today the largest group and the back-bone of the Republic. Though they cannot carry an election, they hold the balance of power. Representing the moderate workers against both monarchistic Junkers and Communists, they have decided to support the central Republican groups...
...develop with Dr. Roger I, Lee '01, the plan of physical education for Freshmen, he showed himself from the first to be a skillful organizer and an indefatigable worker. Under his direction, a scheme which might have aroused much opposition was carried out without friction and with enthusiastic support from the great majority of the faculty and the undergraduate body. The pioneering work which he did was a thing of permanent value and of great importance to the University...
...Boston City Legislature has at last heard the facts concerning the much-discussed "Loop" thoroughfare which is proposed to alleviate Boston's intolerable traffic situation. The needed improvement has the strong support of almost every business organization and the silent improvement of most of the public. Up to date its existence has been precarious. Mr. Lomasney the political boss of the West End, although he was instrumental in putting through the very costly widening of Cambridge Street, did his best to spike this project when it, at last reached a legislative hearing...