Word: favor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual meeting of the Andover House Association of Boston held last June, a resolution was adopted proposing that the name of the House be changed. No action was taken, however, until a short time ago, when the council reported in favor of a change of name and proposed that the house should thereafter be called the "South End House." The report of the council was accepted and adopted...
...whatever with the result of a meeting held by the executive committee of the College Republican League of New England. The result of that meeting, as given by the daily papers, purported to show that the concensus of opinion of the college Republican Clubs of New England was in favor of Levi P. Morton for the next republican candidate for the presidency...
...There is no assurance that state banks would nto be substituted.- (a) Carlisle Proposed them.- (b) Many congressmen spoke in favor of them...
...subject, whose opinions would be of great assistance to the committee in their work of canvassing student opinion. Such men should not hesitate to write briefly what they think. For the benefit of the large number of men who would like simply to say that they are in favor of the plan, blue-books will be placed tomorrow morning at Memorial Hall, the Foxcroft Club, and Leavitt and Peirce's, and one will be in the CRIMSON office this evening...
...must be borne in mind that the effort of the committee at present is not to create a sentiment in favor of the proposed club, except so far as the project commends itself. What they are trying to get at now is what the members of the University actually think of the plan. The latter has been well stated by a graduate interested in the movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more...