Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present the entire power in all matters of weight lies in the hands of the Christians, and these Christians are for the most part willing to support the church, and yet on all sides are crying municipal abuses and social evils which crouch on our threshold while the church remains unmoved. In these wrongs the Catholic church shares the blame of all Christian organizations, for no man can neglect any of the daily duties of life and still be included under the Catholic church...
...time for unjust criticism, but rather for unhesitating support. Because things look bad, there is all the more reason why the University should show its appreciation of honest effort. We believe that Harvard men have as much pluck as Yale men, that the quality of courage and persistence produced in Cambridge is not a whit below that in New Haven. But now is a time for Harvard pluck to be proved, for Harvard to make every one believe that she is not dismayed because the odds are heavily against her, but that she will give her team the heartiest support...
...student vote of Harvard's support far outnumbered that of her opponents but as the voting was done by colleges, each one having only two votes, the smaller colleges had just as much voting power as the larger ones. Throughout the convention the fairness and cleanness of Harvard's canvass was generally recognized...
...Dartmouth students have pledged $1,000 in support of their baseball team...
...five dollars; this the nine and crew ought to pay besides their own expenses. Now the manager of the nine has decided not to ask for any subscriptions whatsoever, but to rely wholly on the receipts of games. The crew, therefore, is the only organization which will ask for support. Since the nine will leave the field of subscriptions wholly clear for the crew, the football debt ought, in justice, to be paid by the latter. If, then, this debt is added to the amount expended by the freshman crew last year, the total amount is found...