Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign of this reawakening. Its avowed aims are to crystallize student opinion on the World Court and to attempt some kind of permanent organization among college students for the study of foreign affairs. Any influence, of course, which college students can bring to bear on the national government in favor of the World Court is desirable in itself, as also is the type of organization, which is planned. Yet, even if the Princeton convention accomplishes nothing in the way of concrete results, it will still have been worth while merely as a trustworthy indication that American colleges are losing that...
Light Opera Returns to Favor...
...politicians are preventing America's entrance into the world court. It has not their vote for it has no evidence of their particular genius; it does not contain their signatures. To them the fact that such intelligent minds of their country as Mr. Hughes, Judge Choate, and President Lowell favor the court, means nothing. The eleven judges, chosen from the nations of the world in the hope that they can formulate an international law such as Grotius visioned, a law which will by its own prestige erect a bulwark against the international differences of future generations, these judges must count...
...representative of an organization not connected with the University, under such conditions, not at variance with the spirit of the rule, as it may approve. It may also decide cases involving unintentional, technical, or trivial violations of the foregoing rules, which are intended to prevent discrimination either in favor of or against a student because he is an athlete...
...name of their institution will excite their athletes to such a degree that nothing can withstand them. The Harvard cheer, therefore, consists of braying repetition of the word "Harvard," mixed with a stammer of rah-rahs. Wretched interference and a missed try for goal discredited cheer and theory in favor of a stout team from Holy Cross. Score: Holy Cross 7; Harvard...