Word: support
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system of voluntary attendance with its absence of petty punishments is a good thing because the attendant is more regular and willing than under any other system. For this reason every man ought to do his best to support the policy, for it is the reports which are spread concerning individual cases which do the most harm...
...this connection the class should be reminded of its duty to support the eleven liberally. The manager is now canvassing the class for subscriptions, and it is hoped that he will receive a proper response. The fact that the principal game will be played away from Cambridge puts the management to a very heavy expense...
...Hapgood takes issue with Coquelin in "Diderot's Paradox of Acting." He shows fallacies in Diderot's arguments, and turns to Archer's "Masks and Faces" for support in his conclusion that "you can not get the very highest acting unless you supplement a thorough mechanical training by all the advantages of inspiration...
...Hunt then addressed the freshmen for a few moments and impressed upon them the necessity of encouraging their eleven by personal presence and active support. He said that they must play with much more vim and snap if they wished to beat the Yale freshmen. He suggested that a manager of the eleven be chosen, and Churchill, of Andover, was nominated for that position. Churchill resigned in favor of F. W. Moore of Andover who was elected by acclamation...
...begins again the series of Harvard Union meetings which for years past have been so successful in training men in public speaking and parliamentary practice. It must be remembered that the Union is distinctly a student organization, managed by and for the undergraduates, and hence that it needs the support of the college at large. This, too, it deserves. It has been and is its purpose to present for discussion at each meeting, some one timely topic, either of public or of local student interest. The discussion upon the chosen subject is carried on in perfect parliamentary manner by leading...