Word: supports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...times, however, are not without their advantages. Excitement, though it prevents quiet meditation, stimulates our divine impulses as well as our bodily passions. The age of Cotton Mather would seem cold to us. Wealth, too, brings with it endless good, and though inseparable from luxury, is the sole support of the great philanthropic schemes which are the mark of the Christian Church...
...rather than otherwise. President Dwight draws a line between a true gentleman and a gentleman of leisure." In other words a gentleman must do his share of the world's work. This is essentially a modern idea; it is a northern idea and a republican idea; and it deserves support everywhere...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - We hear much of the energy with which Yale men support their college teams in each and every branch of athletics; and contrasts, invidious to Harvard, tho' inexact are often drawn between this college and Yale. I have even heard it said that we take too little interest in our teams, that our athletic enthusiasm is not remarkable, that we are - oh! blackest crime, indifferent...
...petition asks that the institution may be known by the name of Clark University This is in recognition of the munificence of its originator and founder, as shown by an endowment of $1,000,000 and probably more, should the community exhibit substantial evidence of its sympathy, encouragement and support...
...correspondent hinted in his recent communication on the subject, the Cricket Club, is in need of more substantial support from the members of the university. New grounds near Felton Hall have been bespoken, but the rent, cost of ploughing, harrowing, sodding, rolling, watering and other expenses must be defrayed. Several matches have already been arranged with the Longwood and other local clubs, and also with the University of Pennsylvania. Now, if the University of Pennsylvania sends a team to Cambridge, the Clicket Club must pay one half of their expenses, besides the cost of entertaining them in a fitting manner...