Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robert Treat Paine has now begun to provide the encouragement which he desired to give to the science of astronomy; the sum of $165,000, comprising about half of his bequest, having been received by the treasurer of the University, and the income therefrom being already available for the support of work at the Observatory. The addition of this fund to those previously available raises the endowment of the institution to a little short of $400,000. This recent increase in the means of the Observatory, Prof. Pickering states, will ultimately permit a corresponding extension in its work...
...become a law, it would have taken at least $50,000,000 out of the national treasury, and increased our total pension list to over one hundred millions. We should have been taxed as heavily for this purpose as are many of the countries of Europe which have to support large standing armies. Many of our most prominent military men have declared their approval of Mr. Cleveland's cause in vetoing this measure, and numerous Grand Army posts have voted resolutions to the same effect. These are strong arguments in favor of the justice of the veto...
...nine showed up so well last week that we can predict that we have the best nine we have ever had, and it is the duty of every one of us to give it our heartiest support in every way. - Princetonian...
Yale has taken the initiative among her sister colleges in providing a regularly organized nine to give practice to the 'Varsity team. The zeal with which the undergraduates have subscribed for the support of the new nine shows that the matter has been carefully examined and that the sentiment of the college at large is that it will supply a long felt want, that of regular and systematic practice for the nine which represents the college. Not only this, but players who in the beginning of the season have not shown up well enough to get a place...
...said that in his experience he learned as much as he taught; he found his people only too eager to learn. The sorest need of this people is for teachers, and the Hampden school is the place for such teachers to be prepared, and the school calls for the support of all Americans...