Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have the utmost confidence in Captain Brickley and Coach Haughton to give Harvard a team which shall merit our highest approbation. In their efforts to build such a team they have our unbounded interest and hearty support. From the experience of recent years we well realize that eleven men, and not a few individuals, make the victorious type of football team. A difficult task confronts the coaches in choosing these eleven men. They must be qualified to work as a unit against the strongest opposition Harvard has yet known. Michigan, Princeton, Yale, and every other team on the schedule will...
...Professional Clubs--united in the Associated Harvard Clubs--in all the principal cities of the United States, and in many foreign cities; and these clubs make themselves very serviceable to the home University, and to young graduates who go as strangers into communities new to them, where the immediate support of a friendly group of older residents is of real value to the newcomer...
...University possesses a large number of funds the income of which is applicable to the maintenance of poor students. These aids are reserved for students who need pecuniary support in winning their education, and are allotted only to young men of proved capacity and decided promise. Such aids are desirable at Harvard in all Departments; because every student is required to pay a tuition fee, which varies in the different departments from a hundred and fifty dollars to two hundred dollars a year, a fee which does not pay more than half the actual cost of educating the average student...
...expenses. Since 1810, however, Massachusetts has made no direct contributions to Harvard; so that the University has relied exclusively on students fees, the income of endowments derived from private persons, and gifts for immediate use. It appears from the experience of the last hundred years that these methods of support, combined with the privilege of exemption from taxation, can be trusted in this country to maintain an institution of the first class generation after generation: and that the graduates of such an institution can hold their own in regard to professional success and public service-ableness in competition with...
...coolness and fighting spirit in the team's playing yesterday, renews again our confidence in its ability to defeat Yale in the final game of the series. The University baseball team of 1914 deserves a victory on Saturday and in its efforts to gain this victory, the loyal support of all Harvard men will be ever with the team...