Word: supports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea if the captain of the Mott Haven team would take the matter in hand as did his predecessor last year, issue a notice of when and where the first run would be held and I am sure that he would have no cause to complain of lack of support. Last year there were always twenty or thirty fellows who started off after the hares and there is no reason why the exercise should not be just as popular this fall as it ever was. Next to foot-ball, Hare and Hounds is the most invigorating of all the fall...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- There are few sports more worty of encouragement or which receive less support from the members of the University than cricket. It is a shame that this game which has been acknowledged for centuries to be a gentleman's sport should be so wantonly overlooked here. Few men probably realize what the cricket eleven has done, or what it might do, if it received its share of support from the students. Beginning yearly with a few good cricketers the eleven is filled up with raw men who practice faithfully by themselves unnoticed and disregarded...
Therefore, let every man interest himself in cricket. Let him join the association and if he does not try to learn this admirable game at least let him support the team and show that he for one is interested in the welfare of Harvard...
Graduates would regain confidence in our crews here, for we must not forget that some graduates rowed and won before we were born, and would support us with the same enthusiasm as the Yale Alumni support their undergraduates. This enthusiasm of Yale graduates and the co-operatian of students and alumni at New Haven is what makes it possible for Bob Cook, Esq., and certain other gentlemen to be travelling through the West this autumn raising large sums of money to help defeat Harvard again in 1888. If rowing interests and successes were left to become the burden...
From recent statistics it appears that more than 25 per cent. of the students at the German universities are in receipt of support from public funds...