Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This means that the more active, tub-thumping aspects of the Program will be halted while a reduced staff of workers set out quietly to enlist support from very wealthy individuals and very large corporations...
Then what of church schools that keep high academic standards and teach religion as well? Agnostic Lekachman warmly supported the right of churches to maintain them, and just as warmly opposed tax aid for them. The public school has "primacy" in a free society, he felt, because it is "an ally of social tolerance, class fluidity, and the open mind." It is the one agent that may postpone choices "until they can become the acts of adults rather than the reflexes of children . . . The public school is too valuable to encourage alternatives to it." With much of this Rabbi Gordis...
Such sports as lacrosse, sailing, skiing and golf, styled "minor sports" by the HAA, receive no financial support from the College, other than scattered coaching or equipment. Some, such as skiing, have been surprised that this year, with new resources to be devoted to sports under the Program, their modest subsidies were suddenly ended. To most of these sports a grant of a few hundred dollars would be of major importance. All of them could survive all year on what it costs to fly a "major" team to a couple of away games...
This is a direct imposition not only on the people who both play and support rugby, but also on the several hundred spectators. Whether a spectator paid by cash or coupon, he did so with the understanding that his payment was connected with supporting the contest...
...cannot excuse itself by claiming that the entrance fee was really intended for the nearby baseball game. To do so acknowledges the principle it here denies, that of not charging admission without granting support. If a sport such as rugby is denied College financial support, whether on grounds of limited importance or University-wide participation, it should not be exploited as a source of revenue...