Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missouri in 1922 claimed 150,000 members, but probably has not 75,000 today. In 1922 politics kept its hands off, although Senator Reed fought it and was elected. In 1924 both parties denounced the Klan. Klan support has become a political liability...
...following statements are a few of those received recently by the committee, from prominent men in support of the Student Friendship organization. The Honorable Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, writes...
...which near sighted critics may fail utterly to comprehend The conversion of such critics is but a side issue of the main object which is a direct appeal of youth in one land to that in others. Thoughtful Americans whose minds have ventured out of the provincial stage will support the Drive...
...spirit of those lovers of the best men like Charles Eliot Norton and William James, like Royce and Wendell and Santayana--who have created the noblest of Harvard traditions: and it is sad and strange to see Harvard graduates who are willing not only to refuse such work their support but actually to impede it by higgling criticisms because it does not devote itself to ministering to their infantile fixations...
After all, however, the main point is that all these arguments about details are trivial and irrelevant, unworthy in idealistic people like ourselves. The Harvard Glee Club is doing an invaluable and sorely needed service to our higher esthetic life. It behooves us to be duly grateful, and to support so important an influence up to the limit of our resources...