Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Shooting Club has passed a vote to give its hearty support to the University Club project...
...contest should prove a close one. The Freshman team is probably the stronger of the two, but it must contend against the inherent prestige of the upper class, and the greater experience of the Junior players. The 1901 eleven will therefore hardly do itself justice without the moral support of a friendly crowd back of it. The Freshman class will do well to bear in mind then that the place for them this afternoon is Soldiers Field. They are represented by a strong team and if they can supply their players with that useful measure of self-confidence, which comes...
...there is enough interest already existing to start the work on a favorable basis, well and good. But that is only the beginning. The club must be pushed, new men must be urged to come out, and a sustained effort must be made to obtain little by little the support which the old clubs have failed to secure. This must necessarily be a work of time. It will be a mistake to expect a large measure of success immediately. Above all, it will be a mistake to relax the effort in case it should not meet with immediate success...
...Seniors and Juniors. Allowing that Seniors and Juniors are for the most part provided for by these courses, yet we have the Sophomores unprovided for. It seems certain that a Sophomore society would be advantageous. The only question remaining now is whether the Sophomores would turn out and support such a society...
...president of last year's Freshman club call a meeting of all men from the class of 1900 who would actively support a class debating club. If sufficient men appear at the meeting and show enough enthusiasm in the project, then let a Sophomore club be formed, whether the other classes form similar clubs...