Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these small sums to collect, there ought to be no difficulty in getting the needed amount. Certainly every man in college ought to subscribe his small share to the lasting benefit of all the athletic teams. It certainly would be a disgrace and a parody on Harvard's enthusiastic support, if the committees should have any difficulty in their undertaking...
...afterward went to Cambridge, and was expelled, but the fact remains that when he should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life long occupation. Acting but poorly he became a cobbler of old plays. He began and ended his life hard up. Early in his career he killed an actor in a duel and was thrown in prison. There he met a Catholic and was converted from...
...There is no question but that if the paper was held as private property the growing number of students and the increasing support would make it as valuable a source of income to the editors as the HARVARD CRIMSON or Yale news which pay the expenses of the fourteen or fifteen men who do the actual work on them...
Senator Proctor of Vermont will probably introduce into the Senate this week a bill looking to the foundation of a great national university in Washington. The bill is said to be practical, and to have features that will commend it to the support every congressman. The framer is Ex-Governor John W Hayt, of Wyoming, an experienced educator, who represented the American universities at the university celebrations in the Old World, and who is familiar with institutions of learning on the continent. He thinks that no place in the world has so many promising possibilities and advantages as Washington...
...STONE'S ARGUMENT.We are not here to discuss the minute details of railroad legislation, but its general tendency. Instead of further legislation providing for the enforcement of existing laws make the present laws consistent. Modify them so that they will receive the support of public opinion, and may be enforced by the ordinary machines of government...