Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...broom sweeps clean, it is granted, but the argument peters out with that concession. Whereas a vacuum cleaner not only sweeps clean but it carries away the dust in its carburetor or gas bag or whatever the receptacle is officially dubbed. That is the sharp point in favor of the cleaner. The broom comes along and takes the dust off the floor all right, but by the time the goodie has finished making the bed and cleaning out the fireplace the dust has settled down again to do business at the same old stand, until it is disturbed...
During the agitation which has been going on recently in favor of a better army and navy and for the purpose of widening the scope and field of usefulness of the summer military camps, it has been amusing to note the stand which the CRIMSON has taken. The CRIMSON is no doubt a great factor in shaping the ideas and raising the ideals of the unthinking undergraduate, but it is a question as to whether every undergraduate holds this same view. We feel that each individual has ideas of his own upon the subject, and that, on the whole, they...
...movement and best qualified to speak upon it from the affirmative side. Major-General Wood is the originator of the plan; and Adjutant-General Cole and President Lowell are strong advocates of it. Those who are opposed to the principles of the camps as well as those who favor them should not overlook this opportunity of hearing the views of their sponsors. The more the information that can be obtained on the subject, the better can the problem be solved...
Major-General Leonard Wood, M. D. '84, of the United States Army, will be the chief exponent of the summer military camps at a meeting in favor of army training to be held in the Union Living Room this evening at 8 o'clock. President Lowell will speak and the United States Army will be further represented by Adjutant-General C. H. Cole. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...case in favor of summer military camps will be set forth at a meeting in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Major General Leonard Wood. M.D. '84, of the United States Army, President Lowell, and Adjutant General C. H. Cole, will speak of the importance of the summer camps...