Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...author goes on to say: "The figures go far to show that the Harvard undergraduate is not the arrant idler he is sometimes supposed to be. On the other hand, they cannot be said to lend much support to the belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public...
...yielding that is Sin, and not the temptation to which we yield. But no matter what the difficulty or temptation; there is always a hand to help us, a rock on which we may get support. This is found in Jesus Christ. The deep power and significance of His personality is that He puts Himself along with men in their doubt and scepticism, feeling for their weaknesses and sins and sympathizing as one who had himself been tempted. It is He who knows us. He is here to liberate no matter what our burdens. He comes to transform the life...
...first meeting of the Committee on the Union was held last night in the Faculty Room. Professor Hollis was elected chairman of the meeting and R. C. Bolling 2L., secretary. Major Higginson spoke briefly, emphasizing the fact that the Union must support itself in order to be successful. He said that according to various estimates which he had made including rent, insurance, taxes, service, electricity and water supply, and other necessaries the annual expenses of the club would be about $30,000. The Committee then proceeded to take up the Articles of the proposed Constitution in their order...
...College abandon the Classics and mathematics for studies which seem to them more likely to be serviceable in the actual activities of modern society. These tables, as the Dean points out, do not furnish material for an exhaustive study of the elective system in Harvard College; but they support the belief that as a body the students use the system with reasonable intelligence. They confirm the results of previous inquiries in several important respects;--thus, they prove that under a wide elective system there will be no extreme specialization, and there will be fair amount of judicious choice of correlated...
...Yale Athletic Associations has decided to call a mass meeting to vote a new scheme for raising funds to support college athletics. The undergraduates will be called together today and will act upon a proposition for assessing every student seven dollar to pay the expenses of the track and rowing associations. There are the only teams of the university that do not support themselves...