Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting is open to all members of the University. A petition in favor of national prohibition as a war issue will be circulated by the secretary of the Graduate Schools Society...
Military training for national defence is a form of education important to the individual as well as to the nation. As an extension of the country's system of compulsory education it should meet with universal favor in a democracy which is proud of its free institutions and is well convinced that those institutions must be preserved for the good of humanity...
...that Germany was bound to cause our entrance into the war. We knew what we were up against and realized that it was different from all former wars. The situation was much similar to the one Voltaire was placed in when he was asked if he was in favor of capital punishment and replied, 'Certainly, let the assassins begin.' The war is being fought by the Germans on Allied territory, and is being carried nearer and nearer to the United States, as evidenced by the sinking of numerous American vessels by the German submarines. Some people have said that...
...Missouri College of Agriculture has taken an action in favor of preparedness which is the first of its kind. The faculty has unanimously voted to allow all students to leave the school at once if they desire to work on the farms in the State. Those who show that they are needed and who are of actual service will be given credit for the full year's college work...
...Photograph Committee of the Senior Class has been unable to date to secure pictures of 56 men in the class. If anybody in the University has in his possession a photograph of any man listed below he will confer a great favor on the committee, as well as make it possible for the man's photograph to be printed in the Album, if he will loan it for reproduction. Care will be taken that the photographs are returned to the owners in good condition. Pictures should be given immediately to H. B. Courteen '17, Thayer 33, G. B. Blaine...