Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boat, a point which doubles its value. Such a gift from the graduates will not prove undeserved. Our crew are of good promise; and they are now working faithfully and doing all in their power to insure success. That their efforts will be rendered useless by a tardiness of support, through the negligence of their friends, is a danger against which the graduates, on their side, must jealously guard; and we therefore earnestly call upon them to come forward, now, in good season, and do the part which we have good reason to expect of them, toward bringing the victorious...
...Such expeditions have repeatedly been made by Russian officers from Siberia, and if by Russian officers, why not by Harvard students? But we see no reason why base-ball and boating should be sacrificed. Experience has taught us that we have always room for one more interest to support, be it Rifle Club or Athletic Association. If a shingle be prepared, with a seal bearing the device of a crimson flag floating from the North Pole, we have no fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association...
...bill-of-fare by which, during the late regime, the table had been regulated; a request which the latter refused to comply with, unwilling to give over into the hands of a rival a work which he had been more than two years in perfecting. The students fully support Mr. Farmer in this decision...
...laboring are now definitely abandoned. The half the class dissatisfied with the principles on which the other half ran the meeting of the class now recognize, after painful experience, the fact that arguments are of no avail. The next step in the matter will be taken by those who support the officers elect, who will fill the vacant offices from their own ranks. The rest of the class - whether that be a majority or a minority is not now known - will then probably take some independent action...
There was no coalition between the Pi Eta and the non-society. Nobody will deny that there was an understanding ("implied coalition," if you prefer) between individuals as to whom they would support; and this was only and solely for the purpose of electing those men who, taking into account their ability and surroundings, it was thought could best fill the offices...