Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present support is indication of the future, the finances of the Mott Haven team are likely to be in a sad state this year. The amount of money which will be at the team's disposal depends very largely on the financial condition of the Athletic Association, and the efforts of this association have so far met with little response from the students...
...ways has the support been very disappoiting. The number of newcomers to the University who have allied themselves with the association is small, and altogether out of proportin with a natural increase in this branch of athletics. And again, the winter meetings threaten to be little better than a failure. There are not at present sufficient entries to ensure success, and there seems to be no promise of a sufficient number...
...directly from the students. Since the experiment is at present being made of uniting all athletic expenses under one management, we should depreciate, as out of sympathy with the spirit of this experiment, any ordinary door-to-door canvassing. The club ought to be as nearly as possible self-supporting, and to rely for funds rather on additions to its membership than on general subscriptions. There are many students to whom the situation in regard to the Cricket Club will appeal and who are well able to give their support by becoming members. We sincerely hope that the cricket team...
...University. The policy of the debating societies ought to be such as to make them still better established. Now to make any sort of activity established as a university institution, two things are necessary,- first, the activity must be made of such a character as to merit general support, and, secondly, it must be conducted in practically the same way year after year, so that students shall learn to expect and to await its different events. The more change there is, the less well-known will be the institution. Where interest is small, it must be concentrated: if diffused...
...Hale first gave numerous examples of the respective powers of the ecclesiastic and civil courts in deciding upon the guilt of accused members of religious bodies. He said that civil authority had enacted special commandments in relation to the holding of property for the support of some divine creed and that in all cases where appeal was made to the civil court, the civil court never held the previous decisions of the ecclesiastical court to be valid, as these bodies had organized themselves, and whatever power they exercised came only from themselves and could have no legal force...