Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...metrical version of Todhunter's Algebra, that was much admired, and in college I have written a series of Essays on various subjects. They are bound in blue, and are to be found at the Secretary's office. I organized the Philomusagothespian Society; but, owing to lack of support from the College, the Society was obliged to disband. At first I boarded with my cousin Mr. Connors; but, for the last year, I have taken a suite of rooms in College House. My best friend was the President of the Porcelain Club. I did not know him very intimately...
...will avoid personalities and the vulgarity of the Yale Daily News, it will undoubtedly recommend itself to the best class of our students: all will want to read it; but whether all will buy it or not, time alone can determine. Harvard is notoriously inferior to Yale in the support of such interests, and our college pride needs some stronger stimulus than statements about what Yale has accomplished. We sincerely hope that the Echo will receive the patronage that it deserves, and we extend to its enterprising editors our best wishes for their success...
...from other sources, that Mr. King is not a poor student who is working his way through college. Even if he were, however, he would have no business to do so in the role which he has chosen. No one has more respect than we have for those who support themselves through college in a legitimate way. The member of '79 who supported himself for two years by selling books was thoroughly respected by all who knew him, and any slur cast upon him would have been resented by every decent man. For Mr. Moses King, however, we have...
Granting that there is a need for such a journal as he seeks to establish, is not the editor, from a literary point of view, wholly unfit for his position? He is understood to have the support and approbation of the President and Faculty, yet could even its youngest member read the pompous prospectus without blushing for his representative...
...beautifully clear and distinct, so much so that in quiet passages it is a real pleasure to listen to her. We cannot see, however, that she is a great actress in any sense of the word; in passages requiring force and strength, she is very far from perfection. The support averages fairly good. Next week Miss Cavendish plays Beatrice in "Much Ado about Nothing...