Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fredriksen was taken with pneumonia a few weeks since, lost his consciousness almost immediately, and died after an illness of ten days. He leaves behind him a wife and two young children, and for their future support, very little beyond the uncollected, and in many cases unrecorded debts of the students...
...magazine would, in its endeavor to get subscribers, draw away, more or less seriously, from the present almost insufficient support given the "Advocate" or Lampoon. Even if the Monthly itself survived, one or both of the others might be forced to stop. If, now, the work proposed to be done by the Monthly could not be done by one of the papers already established, then we would say "Start the new paper, and let either the Lampoon or "Advocate" die, if need be." But since the "Advocate" can, and will do exactly the kind of work, and as much...
...which proposes to add to its size next year, and to do exactly, in quality and in quantity, the work which would be done by a Literary Monthly. Not more than one paper whose aim is to represent the best literary thought of the college, can expect sufficient financial support. The question then arises, which can fulfil this purpose best; a new Monthly, or the "Advocate" in enlarged form. We think the "Advocate" can do this for the following reasons...
...Advocate will give the same kind of, and equally good, matter. The support which a Monthly, if established, would have from the English Dept., would be given, we have reason to believe, to the "Advocate," if, instead of starting a new Monthly, the "Advocate should do the same work. The literary editorials, (entirely distinct from the other editorials), and bookreviews will receive as careful attention as they would in a Monthly. We shall try, probably, to have in each of our twenty numbers, an article from some one of the college instructors...
...these reasons we ask the support of the college next year, both by increased subscriptions and by literary contributions. The price of the "Advocate" will be, as at present...