Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...always rather hard for a class to support a Freshman crew which must be sent away in June and provided with new boats, oars, etc., and can, of course, do nothing to help pay its expenses. It will be harder than usual to do it this year because of the sportsmanlike choice of Poughkeepsie as the place for the race, regardless of financial inducements, and because twelve men are being kept at the training table instead of the usual ten. Undoubtedly, however, the generous and thoroughly representative support of a crew, financially as well as in other ways, helps...
Therefore, if we are to have any chance of becoming permanent possessors of this trophy, we must win this spring so as to tie with Frinceton. This can only be accomplished by the support of all men in the University who have any experience in shooting. The fear of continuous practice might deter some men from coming out for the team, but an hour every other day or even twice a week is certainly not a great demand on one's time...
...that the course of the Harvard Golf Club is completed there is immediate need of more club members, both to make up the team which is to meet Yale and the other colleges next month and to furnish the necessary financial support for the club. There seems to be an impression in Cambridge that there are a few well known players who are practically sure of the team and there is consequently no need of a general competition. This is, of course, a mistaken idea: Yale, especially, is unusually strong this year and if Harvard is to win the tournament...
...account of the difficulty in obtaining a proper site. However this may be, it looks at present as though the Corporation were not sufficiently impressed with the actual need of such an institution. It would seem that such questions as those of obtaining a convenient situation and financial support should be looked to with greater promptness when the physical welfare of students is interested...
...take place tonight in Sanders Theatre. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitively the single gold standard, and should decline to enter a bimetallic league even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." Harvard will support the affirmative. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for his main speech and also a rebuttal speech of five minutes...