Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thoroughly successful, the sale of tickets at the door just paying for the expenses of the season. It was found last year that the University was willing at a small entrance fee to fill Sanders Theatre, and the absence of a subscription canvass helped bring the activity into general favor...
...result of a post card canvass of the Faculty and Senior class of Princeton recently made by the Daily Princetonian in an endeavor to discover the attitude towards "horsing" in the university, 55 percent are seen to favor abolishing the custom and 45 percent favor its retention. The exact count was 65 for and 79 against. The Faculty are more generally opposed to horsing than are the undergraduates...
...University hockey team lined up against the B. A. A. seven for a hard 45-minute scrimmage yesterday resulting in a 2 to 2 tie. When the regulars were in the game the score was 2 to 1 in favor of the University, but after the second team had taken the ice, Hicks succeeded in scoring another point for the B. A. A. The forwards paid particular attention to passing and team-play with some improvement. The men also devoted considerable time to body-checking by which it is hoped to break up the strong Princeton attack next Saturday...
...decidedly in favor of this plan of both teams keeping their coaches from the players' bench, for after the game is over the players will all know that the result of the game was due to their efforts and not to help received during the game from the more experienced professional coach. Not only does this plan put an added responsibility on both the captains and the players, but it will mean that more stress will be put on co-operation and team play. With this in view through the early season, the players will learn to depend on themselves...
Discussing Woman Suffrage as a social symptom, the speaker made a strong plea in its favor. The argument that women should not vote because they cannot fight is based on the antiquated theory that physical might makes right. Persuasion and argument are much more potent. Especially in such matters as marriage and divorce, and the education of children, and in taxation, women should be given an opportunity to use their influence. But, it should be added, if it had not been for the militant movement in England, the suffrage movement would have been dead years...