Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...today would understand by a grammar school. It was a preparatory school for college, in which greater attention was given to the study of Latin and Greek grammar than that of English. The Plymouth Colony in the same year decreed that every town which contained fifty families must support a public school...
AMHERST, MASS., May 15. - Amherst defeated Yale on Pratt Field today, 2 to 1. Thomas pitched effectively for Amherst and received remarkably fine support not a hit being made off his delivery. Carter and Trudeau pitched for Yale, the former playing part of the time at right field. The score...
...field. None of the fielders missed a chance; Chandler caught two balls, one a very difficult one, Goodridge caught three, and Edmunds caught four, two of which were hard to get. Cozzens did not pitch as well as he did in the game last Monday, but he received excellent support. He showed great calmness at critical times, and saved the game several times. Brown caught much better than he did last week and was especially good in throwing to second. Walker might have had a few more put outs to his credit if he had kept his foot...
...latter had a lame arm and for some reason it was decided to have Wilson pitch. He has not been considered a very strong player, but on Saturday he proved very effective, allowing only seven hits which were all well scattered, and striking out eight men. His support was good, but in team play the home nine was inferior to Harvard...
...contested the arguments usually advanced in favor of the six year term. He maintained that a capable man and an incapable man should not have the same length of services and that civil service reform tends to lessen the President's power of putting into office men who will support him for re-election. He showed that the depression in business usually advanced as an argument against frequent elections, was greatly exaggerated and that business is more stable in America during these periods than in England during its elections. By the lengthening of the Presidents term he would become more...