Word: supporting
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Finally the landowners found this system very disadvantageous, for the landlord's share continually increased while the owner's decreased. The land was hired out to intermediaries, who exacted heavy rent, thus forcing it to support three masters. This led to a constant abandoning and recolonization, so that land, good for cultivation, became a luxury, and since the sixteenth century, intensive cultivation has been going on rapidly...
...second contention of the socialists is that inequalities of genius are mere caprices of chance. Some philosophers try to support this theory by the assertion that every great invention which has taken place, has been discovered simultaneously by several minds, while the one to receive the credit was he who was lucky enough to get to the patent office first. That this is untrue, that it was the greatest genius, and not the quickest foot which received the credit, was shown by the examples offered in past history of several men who lived under the same conditions, but of whom...
...country. John Adams 1755, John Quincy Adams 1787, and R. B. Hayes '45 were the other Harvard men who have filled this office. It is interesting to note that no other college has had an equal number of Presidents from their graduates. His first speech was made in support of one of the candidates for class president during his Freshman year. As an editor of the Advocate he did the same serious, faithful work, which has enabled him in later years to produce a considerable amount of excellent writings. He graduated twenty-second in his class...
...view of these facts it is very necessary that there be a large and general application for these rooms at this time, and all members of the class are especially urged to support the movement by making application for rooms in these dormitories between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M. today, and 9 A. M. to 10 A. M. tomorrow...
...take advantage of this opportunity of securing a room in Senior dormitories. It is the unanimous opinion of those members of the present Senior class living in these dormitories that the custom makes very strongly for class unity and good fellowship, and it should therefore have the earnest support of every member of the class...