Word: supported
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cheering in the Arena thus far has always been unorganized, and often uninspiring. Partly due to the haphazard allotment of seats, and partly to the lack of leadership, the students have not come forth with substantial proof of support. It is devoutly to be wished that tonight, when two teams meet very evenly matched, this defective backing may not be in evidence. If the contest is to be won, it looks as though victory were partly up to the University, and not alone to the team...
...chess in the seclusion of a New York hotel, the defeat is mourned by many who do not know a pawn from a rook. No one need be urged to attend the hockey game tonight; but a reminder that the contest is not yet won, and that whole-heared support from the University is essential, is not amiss...
This being the case, a very small margin may decide the outcome. While it can hardly be demonstrated in any given case that vociferous cheering has won victory, yet there have undoubtedly been numerous contests in which the enthusiasm of the spectators has swung the tide. Robustly audible support from the stands shows a team that it is not fighting altogether alone, nor altogether for itself--makes its best a little better. Behind the players is something more powerful than they,--the University...
With this in mind, many men in the University should give their moral and mental support to debating. If representative men, capable of standing up and talking cogent thoughts, will go out for the team, debating will be put on the basis it deserves...
...other words, Chapel takes strong hold of many of those who have given it a fair trial,--the most eloquent of arguments in its favor. The reason for the small support is not the indifference of the Harvard man toward religion, nor yet the essentially pagan tenor of his mind. The student should rather be blamed for allowing an asset, as a correspondent this morning puts it, to go unappreciated. Plenty of men in College have never been inside of Appleton, and a lot more have never been there under favorable circumstances. The average student has no conception of what...