Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equally strong determination against the nomination of an avowed wet. And it was for this wetness that Mr. McAdoo assailed the New York governor in an important address in Virginia that belied the harmony of the Jackson Day dinner, and promised much strength to the southerners who will support Senator Reed of Missouri. With this formidable entente arrayed against the eastern leaders who have fixed on Smith, it is more than likely that a party separation will occur...
According to Dean Nichols, the CRIMSON is steadily, during the last ten years or so, running down hill, and is losing the support of its reading public, both graduate and undergraduate. Writing under the title "The Harvard CRIMSON Goes Professional", Dean Nichols lays the blame for the CRIMSON'S unpopularity on the "foul contagion of newspaper row" which he claims has invaded the Crimson Building on Plympton Street. As a contributing cause, he also mentions that the CRIMSON editors have become less and less affiliated with the other activities at Harvard...
...required for professional and business life--much longer than it was formerly--the young man does not begin his active career until a later age than is wise. An artisan at the age of 20 may be earning as large an income, and be as well able to support a family, as he ever will be; but his contemporary who is looking forward to the bar or to medicine, for example, is only half way through college at that time. The ordinary age of entering an American college is over 18, so that if the young man completes his four...
...that Mr. R. L. Duffus in the New York Times Magazine concluded his survey of the problems of American colleges. And because he chose merely to be an optimistic reporter of the surface facts, this conclusion was something of an anti-climax. The effect of club life and self support on undergraduate democracy he felt to be a dangerous subject better set forth without injudicious comment. At Harvard," he said, "it is taken for granted that a certain social status in the outside world is essential to election in certain societies." In the matter of manners he only suggested...
Italy, on its 119,242 sq. mi. of mountainous country, supports a population of 39,989,385 souls. The support is poor. Half of the people work on farms. Most of the others work in factories. The factory workers, although quick, industrious and intelligent, are not robust. They can do only light work...