Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shattered Union. The Student Council might well at its next meeting request the Faculty to appoint members from its body to from a Union Committee with "representative undergraduates" selected by the Council either from the University at large or from its own members. Such a committee would have the support of Faculty and students alike and undoubtedly could give material aid in the restoration of the Union...
...argument that the postponement of the discussion on the League of Nations will lead to its being shelved permanently is not sound. If the League of Nations is such that enthusiasm over its adoption can be cooled within a year, it cannot have the whole-hearted support of the majority. Peace first, and then a league to enforce that peace; that is the world's need, not something to enforce what is yet to be obtained...
...future peace of the world depends so much on what is being said and thought today, it seems only reasonable that all measures calculated to insure the elimination, so far as possible, of all class or national prejudices in our system of academic instruction, should receive the hearty support of all concerned. A pure and unblased history of the past has yet to be taken and has yet to be written...
...rare for a research worker of the first rank to be also a real teacher of his subject. It is even rarer for such a man to prove that he is not a mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders...
...receipt of a letter from Mr. Herbert H. White in which he advises me that your club has contributed liberally to the support of this unit which has been maintained here in the name of the University since July, 1915. It may be assumed that the fact that I have spent some two years of my time in doing what I could to see that this work was carried on in a way creditable to the dignity of the University is evidence that I have believed it to be of real importance. It is not, as I believe, accidental, that...