Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...requested to remind the Freshmen that the H. U. B. C. rely on them for a large portion of the funds necessary to support the crew. Having no society expenses, they are supposed to be able and they ought to be willing to subscribe very liberally...
...meeting of the executive committee of the Boat-Club, held October 6, it was voted that all members of the University who subscribe for the support of the crew three dollars or more, shall, on signing the Constitution, become members of the Club. The Constitution can be signed at 5 Holyoke House, where keys to the boat-house can be obtained on payment of twenty-five cents. Members of the Club who wish to secure rests or lockers must apply to the Vice-President, at 41 Beck Hall. The rent of rests for one boat is ten dollars a year...
...come forward to take the crew and the nine by the hand, and thank them for all they have done for us; tell them we admire them, and are proud of them, and are watching them; and let us follow them right through the year with our cordial support and encouragement, and help these splendid representatives of ours to keep the championship they have won, right here with old Harvard, where it belongs...
...aquatic successes of last June make us all more kindly disposed toward rowing, more hopeful for victory, and more ready to support the boat-clubs and the crew, than we have had reason to be for a number of years. By the excellent management of the treasury, the crew's finances have been left in a much better condition than before; but the tottering boat-clubs, with difficulty kept on their legs through last year, are now feebly supplicating support for another season. Boating is standing before us, like a stout and swift but rather ill-cared-for horse, ready...
...ruffians under the sun, the college ruffian takes the palm; for, with the conceit of his own knowledge and the consciousness of his support coming often from some other source than his own labor, he feels himself to be a little god on earth...