Word: supportiveness
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...FRANCIS P. KNIGHT, an old resident of China and one of the Chinese Commissioners to the Philadelphia Exhibition, has collected $10,000 to support for three years two Chinese instructors at Harvard College, who are to teach young men the Chinese language, so as to fit them for positions in China, either under the government or as business agents. He will select two Chinese gentlemen as teachers. - New York Evening Post...
...playing against gentlemen when we met Yale, but they sadly disappointed us, for their conduct throughout closely resembled that of pugilists, their chief object being, apparently, to win the game by foul or fair means. We do not make this statement rashly, as we feel confident that the facts support...
...with the hearty approval of all that have been informed of it. Such a society would, if kept up, be the foundation-stone of what might, in a few years, prove of immense value to all students of History, in or out of college. The chief support now must come from the present Junior and Sophomore classes, for, as it will take some three or four months to organize it, '78 cannot be expected to lend much assistance, though a small gift from the graduating class would not be out of the way. Many...
...come forward to take the crew and the nine by the hand, and thank them for all they have done for us; tell them we admire them, and are proud of them, and are watching them; and let us follow them right through the year with our cordial support and encouragement, and help these splendid representatives of ours to keep the championship they have won, right here with old Harvard, where it belongs...
...view, the Lampoon did not intend to confine itself, any more than it had before, to matters immediately connected with undergraduate life. That their paper was to be considered as anything more than an amateur periodical, managed by men in college or still upon its borders, and chiefly supported by Harvard men, never entered their heads. It has turned out, however, that many undergraduates have hastily concluded that, because the Lampoon was endeavoring to attract attention outside of the college, it intended henceforth to neglect the college altogether; and the paper has consequently suffered from a certain degree of unpopularity...