Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent CRIMSON editorial advances in favor of universal military service: first, that it is a cure for social unrest; secondly, that General Pershing declares universal military training to be a school for citizenship; thirdly, that League or no League "we must have an army of sufficient strength to cope with any attack...
Speaking of the recent vote at Oxford to abolish Greek as a compulsory part of the curriculum, Professor Aydelotte expressed himself as being in favor of continuing the study of the classics, although he does not believe that they should be made compulsory
...eagerness to assume responsibility for the Freshmen's every act, but it cannot be said that their methods have the sanction of disciplinary experts. Why not draft the Faculty for the job? Since members of the teaching staff have time hanging upon their hands, this suggestion has found marked favor. The success of the arrangement varies with the professor. About all that can be argued for it is that it is better than nothing. But Seniors--that's another matter. For one thing they know the ropes. More than that, Freshmen will give them what they will not so readily...
...grounds that it is impossible to carry on the work successfully in both places since the income from the present endowment is far too small to meet the expenses. Thus it is planned to lower expenses by combining the two similar institutions within the same grounds. Another argument in favor of the change is the fact that a combination of the two would prevent duplication in the work hereafter as well as giving the Bussey students, all of whom remain for summer work, an opportunity to use the Garden at the time of its greatest usefulness...
...about which the University has no business to be partisan. For it to "further by its inspiration the establishment of a universal service throughout the nation" would be as inappropriate as for it to oppose the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution or to favor intervention in Mexico or to take a stand on prohibition...