Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they can persuade their friends that the service and variety of Memorial Hall are worth the price charged, the membership should increase so as to reduce the price to a minimum. We should remember that Memorial Hall is primarily a University institution and that it deserves to receive general support; otherwise it will degenerate into a purely financial proposition. A wide interest is the only remedy for the criticisms with which the officers of the association are assailed, and this interest should be expressed not only by a larger membership, but by an increased attention to the management...
...alternative. True, the writer suggests that the Faculty should have planned academic ceremonies which would conform to the dignity of the anniversary, but this the Faculty refused to undertake. If they had, it would, indeed, have required a fertile imagination to devise a program which would have enlisted the support of the undergraduates. We can picture the entire University marching sedately to listen to serious orations and to solemn reflections upon the life of John Harvard. The atmosphere of reverent awe would be everywhere in evidence, but not the undergraduates...
...study of social conditions, especially of children. For five years, beginning with 1890, he spent his summers in Fresh Air Fund work for children, taking from 200 to 300 boys and girls each year to Freeville, New York. In the summer of 1894 he tried certain principles of self-support and self-government for children with so much success that it was decided to carry on the summer work in the future on these principles. In September, 1895, five boys remained with Mr. George and the Republic began its permanent work...
However excellent and appropriate the plans for this anniversary celebration may be, they cannot be successful without the support of large numbers of graduates and undergraduates. These plans are on a scale which the occasion warrants; but unless everyone enters heartily into the spirit of the affair and feels a personal responsibility to participate as far as possible in the accompanying festivities, the real value of observing the anniversary will be lost...
...wanted to interview the candidates for municipal office, and to look up their records. The information thus obtained will later be given to the voters of the city in the expectation of influencing their votes at the city elections. The league is a non-partisan organization, and endeavors to support the best candidates regardless of party. Thirty students volunteered for the work this fall, and each will be given the names of one or two candidates for once whose records they will look...