Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...active and successful co-operation of the whole university to meet with any considerable success. It is certain from the vigorous action of the present corps of officers, that this condition will now be reversed. There are no societies in the university which deserve a more lasting support than this, for it stands alone as the single society whose object is in any way related to temperance. A course of lectures or addresses by prominent men would do more to foster temperate habits among the students than any other work of the society...
...witnessed the exercises. The college has every reason to be proud of last year's achievements in track athletics, and the victories gained there are heightened by contrast with the ill success with which we met on field and water. It is needless to say that the students should support the association in all its efforts, as every man in college feels called upon on his own account to show an active interest in this branch of athletics. The success earned in track athletics for seven years, and the consciousness that we now possess the Mott Haven cup ought...
...meetings. Upon a topic of such living interest nearly every member of the college should have something to say and much to hear. Many men while in college are personally interested in the success of their political party, and if induced to state the reasons for their support of their party, might be the means of converting not a few to their opinions. The selection of such a subject is wise, for two reasons; it interests the college in the work of the Union, while it calls upon the students as young men to gain an insight into the work...
...render it palpalbly unjust if it is so. There is often, it is true, too much school-boy oratory displayed when those who are ambitious for forensic honors first address the Union. But this is inevitable, and should be judged leniently. The work of the society merits the support of every student, while it seldom calls for his criticism...
...proper medium may be brought together and saved, a stimulus may be given to scholarly research and discussion, and important assistance afforded to those who are interested in the solution of the great economic, financial and social questions of the day. And with this belief your co-operation and support are invited with confident hope...