Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant and Athletic Director Bingham are trying to divorce athletics from football receipts with their newly established athletic endowment policy. In essence, they want to build up over a period of years a fund of several million dollars which will support in entirely Harvard's sports program...
...Harvard was founded by Puritans whose consciences had been troubled by the oaths to support the state religion that they had to take at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . Personal experience taught them the vanity of trying to control opinion by tests and oaths; and they made no such attempts here...
...policy to which the United States is committed in the Ethiopian struggle. The Senate intended to insure this by the much-discussed neutrality legislation, and an overwhelming majority of the people obviously approve. Nevertheless, despite--or perhaps because of--their profound desire for peace, a majority equally overwhelming support Great Britain and the League in their effort to apply sanctions against Italy. It is the old American dilemma--the desire to interfere yet to remain uncutangled, to advise but not to execute...
...Harvard Mobilization Committee" passes out a questionnaire to all the members of the audience. The card asked two questions, First, "To support by every means at our disposal genuine neutrality legislation to prevent entanglement of the U. S. in war--." To this, 290 answered "yes," eight, "no," and one, "conditionally...
...second question was "To refuse to support the government of the U. S. in any war it may undertake." To this, 145 answered "yes," 111, "no," and eight "conditionally...