Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Captain Hurley, the first speaker, expressed his appreciation of the support given the team in the Maine game. At the beginning of the season, he said, men enter football work with the enthusiasm and energy bred of the summer vacation. But when the season progresses and the strain of daily and severe practice begins to tell on the men, real and genuine encouragement is needed. You men can give this personally to your friends on the team, and in a body from the cheering section at the games. Make the cheering inspiring and spontaneous, and the team will respond...
...larger general meetings addressed by outside speakers; organizes classes in Bible study and missions; maintain a small library; fills requests for speakers from preparatory schools, city Y. M. C. A.'s, and philanthropic institutions; ends annual delegations to the Northfield Conference, and raises $800 a year towards the support of E. C. Carter '00 in India...
...inaugurated in the spring of 1904, aims (1) to unite all Harvard men serving in any foreign field, by a closer tie to one another and to the University; (2) to secure information about their work, for the benefit of undergraduates and alumni; (3) to raise money for the support of Harvard men sent to foreign countries; (4) to send out men who will bear the spirit of the University into their work; (5) to foster by all these means of the spirit of missions within the University itself...
What has happened at Harvard is that the large football surplus has in time, naturally enough, demoralized public sentiment on the question. The student body, as a whole, is much less ready to give money to support the teams than it was twenty, or even ten years ago, although the actual burden has grown steadily lighter. Under the circumstances such a state of feeling is not to be wondered at, and it has borne hard on the managers, for the unwilling subscriber has now a convenient fence to hide behind; indeed he can even display indignation that such an appeal...
...this policy the Committee believes that it has acted in the interest, not only of our sports, but of Harvard as a whole and it feels that it should have the support of public opinion among undergraduates. ARCHIHALD CARY COOLIDGE. Chairman