Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Will you permit me through your columns to urge those who have not yet subscribed to the University Crew to give as much as they can when called upon. The crew, by their victory of last year, certainly deserve the support of the college. This year, as those who saw the report of last year's treasurer may recall, the crew started in with a debt of nearly twelve hundred dollars, and I earnestly hope that this debt may be entirely cancelled, and the Boat Club left free from debt at the end of the year. Unless...
...response as to make further appeals for the same object unnecessary. The college should at all events show that it is unwilling to slight the needs of a victorious crew. We hope that the freshmen in particular will see fit to contribute largely. Fewer organizations are dependent for financial support on them than on any other class, and they should show their interest in the success of Harvard's athletics in a substantial...
...student at the Agricultural College, because of the cheapness of living, the absence of those inducements to extraordinary expenses by the pupil, which render a college course so burdensome to men of moderate means, the sons of such men will be enabled, either by their own exertions or the support of their parents, to obtain at a cost within their reach a good practical education, as good, in my judgment, as anywhere else, to fit them for the business of life...
...suggestions about certain modern ethical doctrines in their bearing upon religion, and will state the case of one doctrine in particular; then the inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories will be passed in review under this head, notably the modern doctrine of progress as an universal law, and the doctrines in general that regard the world as showing us some kind of historical process. Then another view will be suggested as giving us another...
Resolved, That this convention thoroughly endorse the plan, and the colleges here represented lend their hearty support to the scheme...