Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serious business of the year, however, was occasioned by the temporary modification of the requirements in favor of students enlisting in national service. When the enlistment was in military or naval service or in special preparation therefor, the votes of the Faculty left to the Administrative Board the decision whether credit for an abbreviated year might be given. Special in military or naval service or in special preparation therefor, the votes of the Faculty expressly provided that credit might be received for the work of the year, even though that work was not completed. When the service contemplated...
Both E. D. Brandegee '81, Regent of the University, and Dean McClenahan of Princeton are in favor of such informal dances as 1919 plans to give. The opinions of both these men were considered by the Junior committee before a decision was made...
...will feel even kindlier toward 1919 when they know that its members have gone foodless for several days in order that the Union could be shifted from a dining-hall to a palace of mirth and gaiety. The men in the Union would do the Class of 1919 a favor if they banded together and decided to retire from their base of supplies for strategic reasons. We ask a great deal, but without such compliance the Junior Dance may be doomed...
Yale was willing to have the debate but wished it to be extemporaneous, while the University and Princeton were in favor of having the subject for the debate announced six weeks in advance, as in previous years. A compromise was finally made by which it was agreed to hold the debate some time in March and to announce the question two weeks before the day of the actual debate. As usual the three colleges will exchange teams to argue on each side of the question...
...future soldiers from seeing their families and friends before going to war. It seems an unnecessary parting thrust at the student as he leaves; it gives him a decidedly bad taste of Harvard to carry with him through life. These examinations could be a week earlier; such a favor would be highly appreciated...