Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...moderate size (which is all that the universal training advocates urge) would add incalculable weight to his proposal. If we should continue with a military force too weak to protect our own borders, when the need of enforcing peace arose, other nations would act, while we lent our moral support. History seems to show that peace will never be kept by morals alone...
After delivering their testimony. Blaine and Coolidge accompanied the Massachusetts delegation of the National Security League, which had an audience with President Wilson this afternoon. At this audience the delegation presented the resulotuion passed at the mass meeting in Fanuell Hall urging the President's support for the bill providing for adequate defense. Mr. Wilson stated that both the resolution and the whole question of universal training would receive his "most careful and studied attention...
...magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional football league composed of teams representing these cities; Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton and Cincinnati. The Chicago report speaks of another circuit consisting of elevens from Chicago...
...straw ballot held on January 18 80 per cent. of the Yale voters were in favor of some form of universal military training and, as representatives of the university, these five delegates will speak in support of such training...
Only one man stood out among the substitutes as a strong player, that being R. Baldwin '17. He played a game similar to Percy's, hard and aggressive, but also suffered from lack of support...