Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the CRIMSON, "compared with the Yale News, contains very little readable matter." The two cases are not exactly comparable. In the first place the Yale News does not confine itself strictly to college news, as does the CRIMSON; secondly, the News receives much greater financial support, not only from the undergraduates but from the graduates. This is an instance of the great and powerful "college spirit" which exists at Yale in contradistinction to the spirit of indifference here at Harvard. This same college spirit is what makes Yale victorious over us in athletics; it applies just as well...
...great service to candidates of small means who are desiring to enter college. A candidate who will complete her examination in the coming June, and whose average for the first half of her examination, passed in June last, was over 70 per cent., having fitted herself while teaching for support at a country district school, is now making an effort to obtain sufficient means to enable her to spend some time in collegiate study, in order that she may increase her value as a teacher. Such candidates should be encouraged, and the committee thinks that the best form of encouragement...
Such an educational centre must necessarily be of slow growth. It cannot be puffed up by money alone, but it needs a recognized intellectual superiority; neither can it flourish if it lacks financial support. Millionaires about to dial If you wish to leave a university behind you, take note of the fable of the frog and the ox. Puff not up the frog, but give good pasture to the ox.- Advertiser...
...students of Columbia College recently held a mass meeting and decided to support a ball nine for the coming season. Atherton Curtis, '88, manager of last year's nine, reported that the receipts were $1,863.87, and the expenditures $1,550.50 The balance, $313.57, was handed over to the remaining members of the Inter-Collegiate Base-ball League-Yale, Harvard and Princeton-when it was found that Columbia's representatives were unable to finish the season...
...consequence, he did not receive the support he needed, and was prevented from doing justice to the University, his crew and himself. The responsibility now rests with the University to support their committee...