Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light of established University theory and practice. Perhaps the crowning argument for this use of the present surplus is the fact that the authorities of the H. A. A. who have been in daily contact with the University's athletic problems for many years are heartily in favor of it. Since the Corporation is not technically qualified and is forced to get all its information on the problem at second hand, their stolid stand-pat attitude is particularly obnoxious...
...popularity of track also is on the upward tread with 148 men reporting, 27 more than last year and has nosed out crew for second place in the favor of the Freshmen...
...questions which have been raised as to their place in undergraduate social life, namely, whether separate fraternities should be identified with separate quadrangles or should serve as common meeting grounds between the different quadrangles, we decidedly favor the latter suggestion. Fraternities by and large are too hopelessly identified with individual schools at present. It is only natural for embryonic undergraduates to hear of the merits of one fraternal bond and instinctively gravitate toward it. To limit a fraternity to drawing its members from one quadrangle would tend only to aggrevate the present condition...
...obvious answer to the problem is that the present idle surplus of the H. A. A. be used in completing the gymnasium. What earthly objection there can be to such a plan it is hard to imagine. The H. A. A. itself is in favor of it but has so far been detained in carrying out its own wishes by pressure from the Corporation. The doings and deliberations of this body are always cloaked in obscurity and the motivation of its decisions not always apparent. In the present instance, the Corporation's reluctance to let the H. A. A. spend...
...feels that he is wholly within his rights in making a resolution on the first of May--namely that his suggestions for the second day of this month eschew the consideration of laudable but after all secondary matters such as excursions up the river and Divisional Examinations, in favor of what is in the last analysis his particular line of activity: the academic...