Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intend to support the eleven tomorrow in their game with Yale, must sign the book at Bartlett's before ten o'clock to day. In order to obtain the largest reduction in the cost of the tickets, forty-nine men must go down to New Haven. We do not believe there will be any great difficulty in getting this number of names; in fact we should be very much surprised if only forty-nine men went. The foot ball team has worked hard this year, harder, perhaps, than in any former year. The chances against them have been difficult...
...generally understood that the crew is the most deserving of our athletic associations, as it is entirely without means of self-support. Recognizing this fact, the students subscribe liberally. In the case of the other organizations, however, there are generally opportunities for the management to clear away all debts by the end of the year. So it will be seen that our athletic societies, whatever may be the case with those at western colleges, do not need very much assistance from one another, as nearly all of them are in a great degree self-supporting...
...round trip; if over 49 go, the price will be only $5.30. As the team and substitutes will take fifteen tickets, it will be easy to secure the required number. It is earnestly requested that all who can possibly do so, will accompany the team and support them in this, their last game...
...should we expect our representative teams to make anything like a brilliant record, when we ourselves do not take interest enough in their work even to support them by our presence on the field? It is true that the game of yesterday afternoon was comparatively unimportant, but, with the Princeton game so close at hand, the pitiful array of only two hundred men who had enthusiasm enough to walk over to Jarvis, reflects anything but credit upon our students...
...More than this, we trust that they will not attempt to take any position from which they will be compelled to retire. If the Committee will state definitely what they intend to do, and will take a manly stand in the matter, we can assure them of the hearty support of the undergraduate sentiment in the college, and that they are doing their best to solve a very complex problem. If this sentiment meets the respect that it deserves, everything will be harmonious. While Pinafore rules and bib-and-tucker regulations are absurd in a university such as this...