Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vital significance of this step toward the solution of the labor problem, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest of the twentieth century, must be plain even to the dullest. Today organized labor is in a very trying position; it must, on the one hand, retain the support of the laboring man in its moderate measures as against the violence of Bolshevism, and upon the other, it must see that those moderate measures are put through. English labor men have for many years received such educations with the result that they are diplomats as contrasted with the fighting type...
...House itself been used by so many people and by so many organizations as during the period covered by this report; and in spite of the fact that so large a proportion of men formerly associated with Brooks House have been absent in service and that the support given by the undergraduate body naturally diminishes in proportion to the decrease in enrollment, nevertheless the activities of the association were successfully adjusted to meet the special needs growing out of the unusual war conditions in the autumn and the equally difficult period of transition to a normal basis that followed...
...compatible," says Dean S. H. Goodnight, former director of education of the S. A. T. C. at the University of Wisconsin. The American Union Against Militarism goes him one better by declaring in a circular letter appealing for members in the colleges that this opinion has been given support by authorities in most his authorities in most of the colleges where the system was tried out. Among its members, this organization boasts such prominent peace-at-any-price advocates as Oswald G. Villard, of the "Nation" who officiates as chairman, Amos Pinchot, vice-chairman, and Professor Emily G. Balch...
...this flowery criticism the Union Against Militarism will gain few members here. Dean Goodnight may wave his arms in angry denunciation or bow before us with platitudinous pleadings, yet the plans for the furtherance of military training at Harvard will continue to receive their present well-deserved support...
...part of those connected with the Association. Surely a University institution which not only held its own during the trying conditions of war-time but at the same time definitely and in a variety of ways increased the field of its activity cannot but deserve the warmest possible support of all Harvard...