Word: favor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...system have a fair chance to succeed as a candidate for any other place? A simple exposition of the working of the old caucus system,- the system that will be in operation if the reform is not adopted,- answers this question, and affords the best argument in favor of the new plan...
...usual. The question was, "Resolved, That there should be compulsory arbitration in labor disputes between employers and employees." The principal disputants were: Affirmative-D. J. Murphy and M. A. Sullivan; negative-H. W. Bowker and H. H. Murdock. Bowker and Sullivan spoke on the rebuttal. The judges decided in favor of the affirmative, although the negative appeared to have a better delivery and knowledge of the subject. After the speeches from the house, A. M. Sayre criticised the speakers individually...
...original plans for a Phillips Brooks Memorial have had to be modified to such an extent, we are glad that Harvard is to commemorate one of her greatest graduates in a creditable manner. Any institution to provide for some merely sectarian need we are sure would not have found favor in the eyes of Bishop Brooks, but to have a religious house at Harvard on a non-sectarian basis was a plan which he heartily approved of and encouraged. In its acquisition the religious societies are most fortunate and it is incumbent upon them to see that the memorial answers...
...Women's Educational and Industrial Union between T. H. Russell 2nd, of Boston University Law School, and Miss Grace G. Ward, graduate of the College of Liberal Arts, for the affirmative, and F. Hendrick 1L., and Miss Maud Wood, Radcliffe '97, for the negative, the decision was given in favor of the latter. The outcome of this debate will undoubtedly have a good effect upon debating interests at Radcliffe, which now hold a lower position than seems reasonable from the showing made last night...
...Resolved, That the undergraduate members of the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa do hereby declare themselves heartily in favor of the proposed University Club...