Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entirely different from applause. The latter in football can be used simply to express appreciation of good playing. Cheering is, or should be, used as a means of encouragement. Almost every small college that has played in Cambridge this fall has clearly out-done us in this matter of support. Harvard men cannot afford to give a too willing world any chance to accuse them of "indifference...
...Harry Lacy in the new play, "The Man from the West." This is a finely woven, well-worked plot with a story of absorbing interest. Each character in the play is of a nature that requires an especially clever actor to properly delineate it, and to this end the supporting company is particularly strong, the role's fitting each as if written for him. Mr. Lacy will have support of the following well-known people: Arthur Eliot, Payton Gibbs, Dore Davidson, Ernest Willard, J. E. Donnelly, Morrell Beane, Edward Maas, James Dunham, Edward Matthews, Richard Nesmith, Miss Beverly Sitgreaves...
...that it is an evening college in Cambridgeport with between five hundred and a thousand students managed wholly by the undergraduates of Harvard University. It is wholly dependent for its existence on the continuance of the interest of the students here, and is worthy of very hearty support. All students who care to interest themselves are invited to go to the Wednesday evening lectures. Next Wednesday evening a "house-warming" meeting will be held in the new quarters, the old City Hall, and will be addressed by President Eliot, Hon. W. E. Russell, Mayor Bancroft and others. To this...
...fall, winter and spring games of the association, with no dues after the first payment. In view of this fact and inasmuch as no regular subscriptions for the athletic team are now solicited, it really seems as though the majority of the members of Ninety-eight might offer support to the team by joining the association...
...notice was the total lack of team play. There was a vague looseness which accompanied every rush. Each man seemed to strike out for himself regardless of his fellow-players. This was especially true of the backs, whose interference and blocking off were most ragged. They received little support from the linemen, as their time was often occupied in holding their opponents, for which Harvard paid the penalty of ten yards time and again...