Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Every member of the class should receive in today's mail the Secretary's and the Treasurer's notice. If any omission in sending out these notices comes to the attention of any member of the class he will confer a favor by immediately notifying the Secretary...
...principal discussion of the meeting was on the new football rules. The question "Are the football rules satisfactory in their present form, and, if not what improvements would you suggest?" was sent out to the athletic authorities of 75 colleges. Fifty answered in favor of retaining the rules in unmodified form. The others were in favor of slight changes, and only one college thought that football should be abolished...
...seeing that they are preserved for the use of our people as a whole and not exploited merely for the benefit of a few people of great wealth. It is by no means difficult to make speeches and deliver lectures on that subject, nor to hold conventions in its favor and applaud declarations in favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet with all kinds of difficulties; they are brought face to face with all kinds of selfish interests, and they are exposed also to the even greater danger...
...saved the court, because it put the machinery in motion and if this step had not been taken mere disuse would have caused the court to vanish out of existence in a very short space of time. Almost any nation is willing to pass a high-sounding resolution in favor of peace, and in any peace convention which is to do efficient work the difficult is not in passing such a resolution, but in preventing the passage of so many such resolutions as to make the convention appear foolish in the eyes of practical men. But the minute the question...
...printed this morning deserves comment. To begin with, it states that the old Council is "not yet officially dead." If failing to perpetuate itself within its constitutional limits, and this it certainly failed to do, does not constitute its official demise, what can? The majority of even those in favor of the new plan recognize that the old Council is now defunct. Next, how can the defunct Council, or supposing for the moment that it still exists, how can its very nominating committee sit down and proceed entirely to revamp its constitution when provision for legally carrying out such amending...