Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Armenia and give our encouragement to the only movement for her relief which our country is trying to make-the Red Cross movement. I hope that every man who can possibly do so will put aside study and private interests for an hour Monday evening and lend his moral support to the meeting of the United Religious Societies. If we, as a body of disinterested students can throw our weight on the side of peace and humanity there is no telling what good results will follow. Harvard stands before the country as an example in many things. Let every...
Word has at length been received from Princeton as to her choice of side for the debate. Princeton will support the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That Congress should take immediate steps toward the complete retirement of all the legal tender notes." The debate, as before announced, will be held in Sanders Theatre, Friday, March 13. Each speaker will have first a twelve minute speech and in addition, according to the Princeton custom, five minutes for rebuttal...
...outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand to go on and shut up the press, the pulpit, the market-place and the clubs it can hardly be worth his while to begin with muzzling this University. The plea that the government, right or wrong, must be supported is wholly out of place in this juncture. There are, of course, crises when the nation is engaged in a struggle from which it can not retreat, and then the paramount duty to save the country properly silences private doubts. But it does not follow that whenever the government proposes...
...association of my name with the sensational newspaper articles concerning the election of the captain of the University nine. The baseball season before us is one which calls for the united efforts of all Harvard men, and all should do their best to give Captain Dean the support which he deserves...
...before national honor, or who are still intellectually in a state of colonial dependence on England, would in the end most assuredly invite war. A temperate but resolute insistence upon our rights is the surest way to secure peace. If Harvard men wish peace with honor they will heartily support the national executive and national legislature in the Venezuela matter; will demand that our representatives insist upon the strictest application of the Monroe Doctrine; and will farther demand that immediate preparation be made to build a really first-class Navy...