Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every athletic coach can testify that a little support at a critical moment goes a long way towards winning a contest. Organized cheering in the Arena is probably impossible, but a centre section reserved for Harvard men and their guests would remedy the uninspiring silence which prevailed among University supporters at the Queen's College game Saturday. To those who attended the game it must have been apparent that the feeble and desultory cheering of the Canadian backers did much to stimulate and encourage the visitors. The only applause heard on the Harvard side came from Arena habitues who naturally...
Other posters outline the pension system and separation allowances, given to support those left at home. A final broadside quotes the Prime Minister's Guild Hall speech: "We shall not sheathe the sword . . . until the military domination of Prussia is finally destroyed...
...special interest clubs and the Forum need support. And periodicals and daily newspapers contain material for an education in themselves. If industriously read they will to some extent replace Professor Copeland's suggested course on general information. In passing, it may be repeated that the Library can assist in extending the undergraduate's current knowledge and interest by instituting a newspaper reading room. And the Union would also render an excellent service if it would keep its magazines up-to-date and accessible to readers...
...Japanese government is now investigating American medical schools, so that students in this department will very likely be sent here in the future. As for the students that come over independently, many choose the United States because it affords opportunities for self-support that are available nowhere else. For, with the exception of the government students and those who are unusually well-to-do, the resources of the average Japanese young man are not great. The government of Japan spends only a hundred thousand dollars yearly for the support of students, which is given to the ablest alone...
...need a police force to protect us from internal trouble, we need one proportionately large to protect us from foreign aggression. If we ever arrive at the age of a compulsory international peace tribunal or Supreme Court of the nations we must have a force sufficient to help guarantee support to the enforcement of its decrees. Educated minds are needed to aid in these movements. We need them to give expert thought to the protection of the industries of this country against the unloading on our markets of cheap foreign goods and labor after this cruel war is over...