Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...supporters of foot-ball were not a little surprised and disconcerted at the tone of an article which appeared in last week's Advocate, urging strongly the banishment of their favorite sport from the spring season. That such advice has been given just at this time (without considering for the moment whether it should be followed out next year) is likely to prove most hurtful to the success of the two matches for which our team is pledged this spring. The difficulty of obtaining money-subscriptions in aid of athletics this year is understood by all; and if the lukewarm...
...various clubs and societies which at present flourish at Harvard require for their support an amount of money which, in the aggregate, reaches a very considerable sum. Several of the societies have so large expenses that the proper management of their funds requires a considerable degree of financial experience. It has been the custom from time immemorial to appoint to the office of treasurer some student whose life has, until that moment, been divided between study and play, and whose time is generally pretty thoroughly occupied without his financial duties. The result of this arrangement is that, although no instance...
...season is now advancing, and the football men are settling down to their work in preparation for the spring matches, it may be well at this time to look back upon their achievements in the past and consider their claims upon us for support in the career which they hope to enter upon...
...lower classes, indeed! And, pray, who are the lower classes? Are they those whose hardy forms, made strong and firm by the noble labor for which the body of man was made, support the great fabric of the state, which the puny Sybarite would helplessly allow to fall asunder? Are they those whose active minds, unsullied by the thoughts and traditions, which the Old World has left behind as eternal monuments of its infamy, find in themselves the germs of truth, disregard the plaints of the timorous observer of the past, and proudly direct the course of the ship...
...among the Freshmen. But, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether class races and class crews are not incongruous with the present boating-system at Harvard, and whether the same material for University oars could not be worked up by club races, while the money necessary for the support of the Freshman crew could be given to the 'Varsity...