Word: supports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...departure in athletics is to be tried at Columbia. The presence in college of many excellent baseball players has suggested that baseball might be made a success. A mass meeting of the students was held on Thursday to form a permanent association for the support of a nine. Fifty men pledged themselves to train for the team, and a suitable building for practice, until spring, will be obtained as soon as possible...
...Whereas, the undergraduates who carry on and support athletics have not been consulted with in regard to these regulations...
Amherst has been invited to join the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association, but it cannot accept. There seems to be no desire to get up a crew at present. In regard to this the Student says: "Perhaps it is too much of a luxury for Amberst to support considering her unmatured position, but it makes us feel sad to think of an athletic lacking. Nothing left but baseball? Surely in that we should be excellent...
...about ten miles distant from London, and is generally called Harrow on Hill, as it is built about a small eminence. The school was founded in 1571 by "one John Lyon," a yeoman of the neighboring village of Preston, who gave the sum of twenty marks annually for the support and education of the village children. In the same year the school charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth, who approved of the statutes drawn up by Lyon; but notwithstanding the removal of all obstacles, the school was not opened until 1614. When John Lyon died, he made a will giving...
...They make use of the rule against professionalism as a means of securing support for particular measures, to which there are many objections...