Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown Herald's proffer of support for the resumption of football relations between Harvard and Brown comes, fortunately, not late enough to require projection into a season more distant than 1929. The University's schedule still contains one or two open dates, necessarily in the early autumn; and the possibility of inviting the Providence team to fill one of them still exists...
...need for fifty proven strong men to help him. He should be writing for the newspapers. Single handed he could command a larger sum for a single Sunday appearance than his whole stage full of helpers will attract in a winter. The daily Sartores Resarti of the sport situation support unnumbered experts; a new phase of athletics would be a wow even though as untailored as any Vanities that ever trod a board...
...read in today's issue that Cheer Leader Reid attacks the support of the student body of the Harvard team as far as cheering goes...
Whatever the comparative strength of the candidates, and however large the total vote, every one of the four serious political clubs must feel that it has lost a certain amount of prestige and tangible support through the sleepy conduct of the campaign within the University. Their combined membership includes fewer than one thousand men. In the CRIMSON's poll of 1924 over four thousand five hundred votes were cast. The three-cornered battle of four years ago will hardly be rated as less bitter and less sturdily fought in the nation than the 1928 contest; and unless indifference has wedged...
Among the many panaceas proposed of recent years towards alleviating the ills of the college few obtained as general support as the "scholastic aptitude" tests which were made part of the admission requirements in many universities. At one of these, Amherst, investigations were made to determine whether they really fulfilled their function of predicting scholastic ability any better than the usual entrance examinations, and after a six year period the results are decidedly negative. Comparison of the test results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than...