Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News speaks thus of the Princeton game: "The game resulted in a sad defeat for us, and one long to be remembered. There is no doubt but that a winning game would have been played had the nine been better supported. Many times have our teams been inspired with Yale's enthusiasm to win glorious victories. Harvard sent two hundred and Princeton over a hundred men to eneourage their representatives, while less than twenty Yale men went to support our nine...
...liberal arts and sciences should give a student three things: Freedom in choice of studies, opportunity to win academic distinction in single subjects or special lines of study, and a discipline which imposes upon each individual responsibility of forming his own habits and guiding his own conduct. In support of this position he cites the example of European universities, which received students as young on the average as the freshmen of American colleges, and which have had exceptional success by the adoption of the very theory which Pres. Eliot now so earnestly advocates. If a boy's school training...
...lacrosse team which has just won such signal victories over the best omateur teams in the United States, has, shameful to say, been hardly supported at all by the college. It is needless to say that the team's expenses have been heavy, and it is also unnecessary to say that they ought to be assumed by the college. Now the team has been able to play but three games in Cambridge this year, owing to the difficulty with which matches are arranged with the local clubs. They have therefore arranged a game for this afternoon to take place...
...main points of interest in the game were the pitching of Winslow and the fine support by Choate, the batting of Foster, and the sharp fielding of the home nine. The Princeton men batted lightly and failed to bunch their hits, while they made many fatal errors. The coaching and base running of Harvard were wretched...
...last meeting of the Union will be held this evening. The question for debate will be "Resolved, that the full rights of citizenship should be given to Jefferson Davis." E. A. Hubbard, L, S., and Hobson, '86, will support the affirmative, and Coffin, '85, and Hamilton, '87, the negative...