Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...canvass is being made in the Brown Freshman class to see if the money necessary to support a crew can be raised...
...seems almost absurd to make any appeal to the college to support the Harvard Advocate, but from recent developments it would seem that the oldest representative of Harvard journalism is not meeting the support from the students which it richly deserves. Than the number of its readers has decreased, we do not believe, for such a state of things could hardly be consistent with the improvement in the contents of the paper which this year has shown. For many men, it is to be feared, have fallen into the habit of dropping in on some friend who takes the Advocate...
...Advocate must have 200 more subscribers for the next half year, in order to meet expenses. If the college is unwilling to give the Advocate sufficient financial support, its publication must be stopped. The editors hope that there will be a general response to their appeal for subscriptions. Subscription price for half year, one vol. of ten numbers, $1.25. Copies will be delivered promptly at subscribers' rooms. Subscriptions may be left at Sever's. Postal filled out with name and address, and mailed to the Advocate, will meet with prompt attention...
...years ago that the boating interest at Brown University occupied a prominent position among the other recognized sports. Lately, however, the record of the Brown crew has become somewhat obscure. In fact, the only branch of athletics to which the Rhode Island college has given strong support is base-ball. It seems, however, that an effort is to be made to restore rowing to its old position of prominence, and the following clipping from the Brunonian would seem to show that this effort bids fair to attain success...
...seem rather overdoing it to constantly keep calling attention to the Co-operative Society, but the reluctance to join of the students who have remained non-members, necessitates another appeal for support. That only ten men out of several hundred non-members should have considered it worth their while to invest a dollar and a half apiece in an enterprise where the returns will so much more than repay them, shows how indifferent to money matters a large portion of our college community is. Moreover, the promise of the management that, in case this necessary money should be raised...