Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Noyes believes that Hamlet, with his intellectual ecstacy, was merely an apotheosis of Shakspere's former creation. Touchstone the Fool. Mr. Noyes maintained that it is difficult to conceive how critics could support the madness of Hamlet in the face of the fact that Shakspere himself ridicules other characters in the play for holding this same belief. In their swift, subtle phrases, modified by infinite jest and exquisite fancy, Hamlet and Touchstone can be identified as one and the same creation; and their further loyalty to love, and love for worship, seal their close relationship...
...undersigned, believing that class functions are indispensable and dictated by the highest traditions of the University, realizing that the Union is the only available and satisfactory place to hold such functions and that the principle involved in compulsory membership is wholly justifiable, give our unqualified support to the recommendation of the Student Council Committee on the question of compulsory Union membership. C. A. COOLIDGE, JR., '17. M. WIGGIN '18. H. C. FLOWER...
...democracy, when the Unionists are thoroughly satisfied that Compulsion is a naughty word for polite society, when everyone is convinced that the Union seethes with joyous and turbulent students, and when everything has been said and done to demonstrate this important fact, that the Union is worthy of our support, because some say that it should be worthy of support--then, the smoke clears and we note the following handwriting upon the wall...
...that the vote is on both of these issues. For the vote today will decide whether or not the majority of undergraduates consider the Union of so much value to the college that those who do not believe in its value shall be compelled, against their will, to support it. If the majority of voters believe this today, all those men who believe the Union to be a failure; all those for whom its services are so small that they take no interest in it whatever; and all those whose slim purses would keep them from joining even...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce placed their approval on the Plattsburg idea during the past week when they voted to issue a letter urging employers to do all that they find practicable to encourage the enlistment of men in their employment in the camps, which, they say, deserve the earnest support of all who desire more adequate national defence...