Word: disfavoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more thoughtful part of the press, as well as all the prominent educationalists, have been outspoken in their condemnation of it. But, to our knowledge, no one has arisen in its defence. In fact even the publishers, who might be expected to profit by the measure, have declared their disfavor...
Revolutionary times and sentiments cast Brattle Street, now "Tory Row" into great disfavor. False alarms in April, 1776, sent citizens in wild flight to "a place called fresh pond" to escape a rumored attack by British troops on the town and college, that "hotbed of rebellion". As we all know, the few college buildings became barracks, while professors and students sought what quiet they might find at Concord...
...reason for the growing disfavor of the battleship is to be found in the revolutionary methods of sea warfare adopted in the world conflict, Submarines, airplanes and airships were the real factors, while the imposing fighting ships of the hostile navies were of far less service than in former times...
...introduction of "ringers" temptingly easy. Above all it would give the University with large graduate schools, law, medical and business faculties, a tremendous and obviously altogether unfair advantage over the college without such graduate enrollment. It seems certain that Pennsylvania's action will be looked upon with distinct disfavor among Eastern colleges...
...called system cannot exist and thrive merely on the threat of expulsion or social ostracism for violation: it can only live when the great mass of undergraduate and particularly upperclass sentiment puts a ban on dishonesty, when Cornell students shall look upon acts of deceit with just as much disfavor as do students of the University of Virginia, for instance. There is no difference in the type of student, at the two universities certainly. Our American democratic spirit grants the First Families of Virginia no higher code of honor than the Last Families of Podunk. We are merely conscious...