Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...were the division of authority into legislative, judicial, and executive bodies; the existence of two representative bodies, the Great Congregation and the Council of Elders; the first constitutional king known to history; freedom of speech; free industrial education provided by law; and an established church, to which membership and support were optional. The Levitical Code was regulative, not mandatory. It did not require worship, but prescribed absolute forms for those who chose to worship or to make sacrifices. Blasphemy was a capital offense, being considered perversion of Jehovah, the supreme ruler of the nation, and therefore treason. The Covenant...
...unsuccessful seasons in football is not particularly convincing. Although the team lost to Yale for several years, there was still a great deal of interest and enthusiasm, and a majority of the games was always won. In basketball there are many other defeats than those by Yale, and the support of the whole University, which is given even to a losing football team, is notably absent...
...possibly prevent some men from going out, it can not account for the general attitude, and its abolition would be no considerable factor toward the success of the team. At other eastern colleges, notably Yale and Brown, similar disapproval has been expressed, but the teams have nevertheless received better support than here...
...believe that this difficulty could be obviated by putting on sale at $7 or $8 a blanket ticket admitting to all but the most important games played by Harvard teams. Such a ticket would undoubtedly sell as well as the H.A.A. tickets now in use, and would guarantee support for every branch of athletics...
...minor sports made an advance over last year in an effort toward self-support, the total deficit being $300 less. On the other hand, subscriptions for six Freshman sports were very much poorer than for the same sports a year ago. The great decrease in the expenses of the Freshman crew may be attributed to a more equitable apportionment of the total New London expense, of which the Freshmen had been paying more than their share...