Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secured, as there seem grounds to hope will be the case, it will be possible for Harvard once for all, and under the most favorable conditions, to make a practical experiment in the matter of cooperation. Success or failure then will depend almost entirely upon the degree of active support given to the scheme by the members of the society. The plan at least merits a thorough trial by the university. Positive success or probable failure can safely be predicted by no one; the event alone can decide...
...from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it, while jealously guarding its degrees, and promote among all its members a productive activity in literature and in scientific research...
...report that prominent Democrats promised to support Blaine if nominated in '84 for the Presidency is pronounced false...
...freshmen, we understand, have subscribed very liberally toward the support of their nine. When their manager first went around soliciting subscriptions, the prospects of getting enough money to run the nine successfully looked exceedingly dubious. After a good deal of urging, however, the freshmen have at last subscribed as large an amount as could reasonably be expected. Subscribing is one thing however, and paying up is another. The nine cannot be sent all over New England on subscriptions alone. We have been requested to ask the freshmen to pay their subscriptions at their earliest convenience, so that when the base...
...felt that the failure of the Harvard Register was a detriment to the university. That enterprise started out with perhaps too broad a scope and with hopes too brilliant. But then it can be answered that only a magazine of so high a character could be worthy of the support of the entire university and its friends. Still, the failure of the Register will be likely to prevent any future schemes of such a sort for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the Register was called into being to supply an actual need of the college at the time...