Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student is admitted to this group until his record for the preceding year, in all his courses, has been carefully inspected and the question of his fitness had been submitted to every one of his teachers. Only very high grades in his studies and concurrent testimony in his favor from a sufficient number of his teachers enable the Committee on Scholarships and other Aids for Undergraduates to recommend him for a position in the first group. John Harvard Scholarships are given only to students deemed worthy of a position in the first group...
...faculty of Princeton University is in favor of the establishment of a student military organization which would be entirely voluntary. The discussion of the advisability of such a plan was started by some of the undergraduates, who brought it to the attention of the authorities...
...American athletes and trainers returning from Europe are unanimous in expressing the opinion that the Olympic games scheduled for Berlin in 1916 will in all probability have to be abondoned as a result of the war. There is evidence of a sentiment in favor of transferring the games to this or some other neutral nation, but in view of the condition that the majority of the nations will be in at the end of the war, it scarcely seems likely that they would be a success. Twenty-seven nations contributed 4,742 athletes in the Olympic games...
Dean H. A. Yeomans '00, Professor I. L. Winter '86 and Judge A. P. Stone '93 were the judges of the debate. Their decision was unanimously in favor of the affirmative
...probability the death knell of the four-mile rowing course at Poughkeepsie has been sounded. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association, which is now composed of Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, is known to favor the shorter three-mile races, and although refusing to commit itself on the prospects of a change before the regatta next June, it is confidently expected that Cornell's renewed agitation will result in the change. Coach Courtney of Cornell and Coach Rice of Columbia are much in favor of the proposed shortening of the course, as they regard the four-mile contest too much...