Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...decision of the Senior Class not to place a window in Alumni Hall has the support, we think, of all the Undergraduates who have really considered the matter. At first the idea may have seemed a good one, but a sober second thought is enough to show the mistake of the plan and the close analogy' with the case of him who had his own tombstone cut, for fear he should not have one sufficiently expensive. The true memorial of a class such as that soon to graduate is the impetus it gives to under classes by its record...
...till it is convinced that the amount already expended has been well used. It is indeed difficult for one not acquainted with the subject to see where the appropriations have been employed, but still it does not on that account seem necessary for the State to withhold further pecuniary support when its directors promise that, with such aid, it will not be long before the scientific world will acknowledge that the Museum of Comparative Zoology has no superior, nor even equal, in the world...
...Tripod gives us the surprising information that the Northwestern University will soon be the "richest on the globe," but growls that "it does not spend a cent for the support of its paper." Perhaps this is owing to the fact that the "Faculty and Christian students" are indulging in a religious revival, usually an expensive excitement. "The watchword is the NORTHWESTERN for God and His Christ." We now find the answer to that much-vexed question, Why does not God kill the Devil? Of course, he left him to be killed by the Northwestern University. Now, indeed...
...could ask for nothing more but object and opportunity. The columns of our two papers are open to our essays at writing, and without denying their excellence, we may say that they would be very much better if they could command, as they would like, a stronger literary support; but for practice in speaking hardly a chance is found, even in our societies, of which all the students are not members. No one can forget that some of the greatest English orators won their first laurels, and gave the first indications of a brilliant future, at the debates...
...born a man to whose untiring energy, and disinterested patriotism, the inhabitants of these United States owe their present liberty. It is fitting that this should be brought to our minds, that thereby we may remember that past to which we should look with joy and reverence. We support the keeping of Christmas because it is the anniversary of the birth of our Saviour...