Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Using a combination of the Oxford and Oregon plans of debating, the Harvard orators meet the Western Reserve University speakers at Holden Chapel at 8.15 o'clock this evening. Two Harvard men and one Western Reserve debater will support the negative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the principle of complete freedom of speech on political and economic grounds is sound" and will be opposed by two Western Reserve men and one Harvard speaker...
...fact that General Smuts was weasling and must weasle every word he says about the "race problem." True, the Negroes of Cape Colony vote for him, but they are the only blacks in all South Africa who are enfranchised; and in all the other provinces General Smuts draws his support from whites who are fanatically opposed to giving their blackamoor neighbors the ballot...
...Please have patience. Please remember that God Almighty in making the world created cockroaches, erysipelas, blizzards and reformers. Please don't expect a high degree of excellence from us in all things. We will be just as good as the public, to which we look for our support, helps us to be, not a bit better...
...Norwegian painter Henrik Lund, who scorned orthodox artistic education and advised him to strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...
...referendum, of the student council proposal of the House Plan two years ago would not have occurred, I feel sure, had the matter been sufficiently understood. The fact that the leaders in undergraduate life, then as now, favored such a proposal may surely be regarded as indicative of the support of the thinking student...