Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota of men after the race of freshmen year is over. The whole matter can be made a perfect success only by honest hard work, and the best of financial support on the part of all the class...
...place. Such warnings and such urging we give here. However strong Harvard's team may be, their rivals are strong also, and will be not at all easily vanquished. Steady work on the part of nines, crews, lacrosse and cricket teams, and tennis players, combined with enthusiastic support from the college at large, will certainly bring respect, if not genuine success, to the crimson...
...Cambridge, a hostile feeling displays itself in regulations which abolish recess to prevent mingling of pupils. This attitude of a portion of our people I have called negative opposition, because, while threatening no attack, it weakens the public school system by withdrawing the interest and sympathy needed to support the common schools...
...school question enters politics, it will most probably be in the shape of a proposal to divide the fund collected for public instruction so as to support parochial schools. To grant a part of the public money to one denomination would entitle all denominations to a share. And sects like the Episcopal church, which talks of building schools of its own, would accept this. But the plan would be greatly to the detriment of the common school system...
...large number of communications sent us in reply to, or in support of "Mugwump," testifies strongly to the live interest taken in politics by college men. These communications make it very evident that, while there are at Harvard many "Mugwumps," there are here also very many, who not only support Mr. Lodge, but believe earnestly in an adherence to the principles of party allegiance. Much as we welcome the recent correspondence, however, we believe that we would go beyond our offices, if we continued to make it public. We publish "Mugwump's" communication to-day only because...