Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principle that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, the efforts that will be made tonight to organize the gymnastic interests of the University deserve hearty support. Heretofore the little that has been done in the way of gymnastic training has been desultory and unorganized and little incentive has been offered for competitive work. The formation of an association whose members shall compete for places on a team will be sure to renew interest in what was once one of the most important branches of athletics at Harvard...
...editorial in Saturday morning's CRIMSON expresses the hope "that the challenge which the Freshman Debating Club has sent to Yale will not be accepted." However perfectly I may agree with the reasons brought forward in support of this position, I must say that the proper time for such an editorial seems to me to have long since passed. Especially is this true in view of recent articles in the CRIMSON where approval of such a challenge, if not definitely expressed, was at least pretty clearly implied. So far as I have been able to find...
...generous view of the subject. The higher education of women is of the noblest and most characteristic movements of our time. In the state of Massachusetts there are forty thousand more women than men. When one considers that many of these women will in all probability have to support themselves, one should be very glad to aid in any work which will help them to do it. Every woman as well as every man in the world should have a chance to learn how to support herself. Natural talent should be allowed to take its course...
...better directed than to the education of those who desire knowledge for which they are unable to pay. This opportunity has never been neglected, and the Union has found no cause to complain of any falling off in the interest of those to whom it looks for its chief support. Its work has never, we believe, been hindered by lack of competent instructors, no matter what addition to its curriculum may have been planned...
...should not meet with entire success. There is ample material in the college to give one very good gymnastic exhibition, and that one is promised for the coming Saturday. Students will not now have the excuse of outdoor attractions which keep them away. They should give the association generous support in its effort to preserve the winter meeting...