Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven, Conn., April 3, 1914.--The Yale undergraduate body of the academic department failed to endorse the proposed honor, system of examinations today. 587 votes were cast in favor of the plan, to 355 against; but three-fourths of the academic registration was required to put it into effect, and so about a thousand favorable votes would have been necessary...
...first year of the Freshman dormitories, a change so vital in the history of Harvard athletics, and so broadly in favor of general participation, as the reorganization of football methods is intensely gratifying. The records of Freshman teams undoubtedly will suffer; but the record of a Freshman team is a small thing ten years from now as compared with the good derived from the encouragement of general exercise. In the furthering of general athletics for Freshmen, it becomes apparent what part a good, conveniently located gymnasium would play. That, more than any one change, would...
Numerous remedies for these conditions have been proposed. The segregation of the different races has been suggested, while, on the other hand, others favor an amalgamation. Still a third remedy is a naval and military domination of the non-Christian world by the Christians. All these, however, Mr. Mott declares to be impossible. Even the additional proposal for the spread of education increases the difficulties. It is Mr. Mott's firm conviction that the only way to avoid the rising dangers is to change the disposition of man's inner self, to present to the non-Christians the purest possible...
...must always be remembered that the struggle for a proper valuation of scholarship is a problem of turning the popular opinion of the college, and turning it toward something which the general tone of American life does not favor. The change is a slow one -- we believe that it has been operating with the higher standards of scholarship during the past few years--and is still far from accomplishment. Every move which will influence it should be made; the two suggested are evident and practical...
...closing his speech President Eliot mentioned the suggestions he made to the Carnegie endowment as a basis for profitable expenditure. These are: first, to create and support agencies competent to prevent or reduce wrongs and miseries which cause war; secondly, to strengthen public opinion in favor of publicity in government affairs; thirdly, to probe all secrets in administration, industries and legislation; fourthly, to cultivate in all nations a public spirit, and to encourage the devotion of private money to public uses; fifthly, to create and foster agencies such as hospitals, training schools and technical schools in countries where they...