Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corrupting our athletics. We are glad to read Mr. Wendell's article, not only for its merits, but because it is a step in the right direction, an approach towards the time when the graduates and undergraduates will pull together, and then there shall be no half-hearted support of athletics...
Meanwhile there is another way in which support is needed. Figuring most carefully, the cost cannot be brought below the following...
...instance. That plucky college has made an earnest and enthusiastic effort to win at foot-ball. Its boys have labored just as conscientiously as those of Yale and Harvard, but they are beaten simply by the limitations of their numbers, and their field, and the absence of large support. They have accomplished all they hoped to in defeating Pennsylvania, and their leaders are already talking of withdrawing from a league where they can never win first place. The history of inter-collegiate boat racing shows that in the end the great universities had better confine their challenges to each other...
...vesper service yesterday afternoon was largely attended, and it was very gratifying to see the great number of college men present. The tenor solo was very well sung, but the support of the boy choir was not all that could be desired...
...taken by the students and that it should receive the sanction of any portion of the faculty, especially when it is known that a few administrations since the converting of the school into a feeder for one college and the giving to it a sectarian character, alienated the support of the Phillips family, which support has never since been recovered, and the loss of which has cost the institution a great deal of money. No matter with what ostensible object such a club should be formed, its ultimate purpose would be to increase the size of the Yale delegation...