Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...support of the Agreement it is urged that under its provisions the University maintains complete control over the expenditure of the income of the McKay Endowment, and also over the administration and regulation of the education, as represented by Harvard degrees, to be furnished under the co-operative plan. The broad discrimination admitted to Harvard by Gordon McKay's will is believed to give the University a free hand in choosing the instrumentalities by which the education is to be furnished, so long as Harvard maintains complete power to direct those instrumentalities. Further considerations are that although Gordon McKay...
...movement to popularize track athletics at Cornell and to encourage an even larger number of men to come out for the exercise, even if they fail to make the team, has been launched by the Cornell Track Association, with the approval and support of Coach John F. Moakley and faculty members on the Athletic Council. A series of weekly social gatherings for all students interested in outdoor exercise has been arranged. Last year Cornell had four hundred men out for track athletics, and it is expected that fully five hundred men will be enrolled this fall. Only a fraction...
Friends of special interest activities in the University will be glad to note the recrudescence of the Wireless Club. This time the organization has struck a vein of new enthusiasm for radio telegraphy; it has the support of research students at the Cruft Laboratory, is to become a member of the American Radio Relay League, and to do some actual experimental work in the receiving and sending of messages. If successful, the Wireless Club will present a worthy example of what can be done in developing serious interests on undergraduate initiative...
...tonight than they did at the Arena at week ago, not only because, in the event of the University's winning, hopes of the intercollegiate championship will be lost to Princeton; but also because the St. Nicholas rink is Princeton's home grounds, where they will have plenty of support among the spectators. Princeton has played seven games this winter, five of which have been victories. During the Christmas vacation the Tigers took a game from St. Paul's School, and two practice games from Yale in Pittsburgh losing the third 3 to 1. Dartmouth lost to Princeton...
...they have to, a few because they want to. When a man picks out his college, one of the most important factors in his choice is the presence of opportunities for earning money. In most cases the State universities, from Michigan to California, provide all the opportunities for self-support that one can expect, and they emphasize this in their literature. A boy graduating from high school in Illinois knows that it will be comparatively easy for him to make his own way at the University of Chicago or at the State university--easy, that is, compared with what...