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Word: supporters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base-ball association was published, we took occasion to congratulate that body on its successful financiering by which a considerable balance remained on hand after paying all expenses. Much of the money raised last year, however, came from subscriptions, the association not being as yet self-supporting. The same state of affairs can be brought about this year if the students will only respond in a reasonable manner to the requests of the manager for subscriptions. The nine, working so faithfully for victory in May and June, ought not to be handicapped by a lack of funds for legitimate expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/11/1885 | See Source »

...divided among a variety of periodicals of a more general character. Embracing as the association does in its membership a majority of the prominent educators in modern languages in all parts of the country, it is believed that such a journal would command an able and intelligent support, and exert a powerful influence in advancing the objects of the organization. As regards the pursuit of Greek and Latin, while the attitude of the last convention toward the study of the classics was liberal and sympathetic, and the necessity of a knowledge of those languages as a sound basis for investigations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Modern Language Association of America. | 3/11/1885 | See Source »

This, in brief, is the new scheme of self-support inaugurated by our sister college at Ithaca. It has many points to commend it. We should like to see the plan tried at Yale. If it succeeded there, we might venture to try it ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1885 | See Source »

...Commoners, who pay for their board, and all other charges, and are not dependent on endowments for support. Their dress is a simple black gown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classes of Students at Oxford. | 2/27/1885 | See Source »

...brief view of Columbia's rudder at New London. The class should respond at once to the solicitations of the crew management, and relieve it from the pressure which has been brought to bear upon it. But the present freshman class should early see the necessity of a prompt support of its crew, and its manager should publish next fall at his earliest opportunity, a full report of the financial standing of the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/27/1885 | See Source »

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