Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mediocre team-play of the Canadian forwards was unable to make any impression upon the Boston team's defence. Poor support on the part of the visitors handicapped their best player, Duckett, who, nevertheless, played a brilliant game...
Foreign investment is essential to the industrial progress of any new country. Owing to her troubled affairs, Spain, the mother country, could not give this support and the other countries stepped in, Germany, France, and Italy following the lead of England. Although with the greatest natural advantages, the United States has only an infinitesimal part in the total foreign holdings...
...strength of its past record at Harvard, also, lacrosse should receive adequate support. For in the last three years the University team has twice won the intercollegiate championship and tied for it in the intervening year. As less than half of last year's team are now available, new men must be developed to fill their places. Only by a large number of candidates may the team hope to maintain the standard of the last three years...
...consideration of all undergraduates not already engaged in the spring major sports. From modest beginnings, soccer has steadily progressed in importance among the minor athletics, and this advance has resulted in the engagement for this year of a professional coach. Its position is therefore assured, if it receives adequate support from the undergraduates...
...team which defeated Yale on Saturday certainly deserves all possible credit and praise. It emphatically proved the fallacy of the statement one hears occasionally to the effect that a Harvard team cannot win an uphill game. It is work of this sort that attracts the support of the undergraduates to a team. A continuation of hockey teams such as this year's should make hockey a major sport before many years are passed...