Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this development Harvard has necessarily played a large part. From the beginning the project had the warm support of President Eliot and the Harvard faculty without which it could scarcely have become firmly established. It was Harvard professors who gave their services, often at considerable sacrifice, to the construction and improvement of the newer institution. And finally it was under the regime of Dean Briggs as Radcliffe's president that the enormous physical expansion of the first two decades of this country took place. The Harvard influence throughout has guided and moulded Radcliffe into what it is today, an institution...
...circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly have become firmly established or have survived long...
...stories were: The General governs with iron-hand-in-velvet-glove. Latin-Americans want a decisive personality at their head. They speedily take advantage of any of an executive's weaknesses. President Machado brooks no political opposition and has logrolled Cuba's political parties to his own support. Political opponents are told to get out of Cuba. Hence the presence in the U. S. of Cubans like Dr. Rafael Itturalde, onetime Secretary of War, and Octavio Seigle, business exile (TIME, April 29). Insurrectos are promptly squelched...
...hope of the world. Christianity has no place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws of the market-place...
...Manhattan, 100 idle musicians, with Socialist and Federation support, last week announced a series of public concerts in the New York Coliseum. There they hope to draw a full audience of 15,000 to hear produced, not reproduced, music at prices as low as 25 cents and 50 cents...