Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atmosphere of tradition that used to pervade the confines of Hollis and Matthews Halls has now been dispelled in favor of a modern one. For during the summer, these two old dormitories have been the victims of the carpenter's hammer and the plasterer's tools, in the University's campaign to amelio-rate the living conditions of the students. The process of renovation has been thorough. New hardwood floors, a feature of the remodeling program, have replaced the worn boards that used to creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their...
...singlehanded the causes of "crooks and bribery," which U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Lowman says are "rampant" in the Federal enforcement system. Last week, Dr. McBride was known to be picking a band of dry workers to rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor of the wet presidential candidate, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. In Indiana. Not in the least helpful to Dr. McBride were sounds issuing last week from Indiana. With the trial for alleged corruption of the mayor of Indianapolis and Governor Ed Jackson (TIME, Sept. 19), Dr. McBride was doubtless heartily sympathetic...
...efforts toward magnifying the latter, allowing the former to dwindle to insignificance, she would have been guilty of the sin of educational simony. Instead, the governing powers of the University during the period of her most concentrated growth saw that the only New England principles to be discarded in favor of others were those of a narrow nature; those which looked no further than the rock strewn hills and stormy coasts and which subjected the larger interests of the country to provincial considerations. What was best in the small New England college would serve more than adequately as the basis...
...value. Since then, since the foundation of what was initially purely a New England institution, foreign ingredients have been introduced and it is the opinion of not a few that these new constituents mingle on equal ground with the original ones. And it Puritan bigotry has been rejected in favor of a cosmopolitan liberalism, the fire of Puritan inspiration burns no less brightly...
...faced Cochet. The Frenchman won the first set 6-4, but Johnston was hardly warmed to the game. The U. S. man took the second set 4-6. Cochet, mak-ing a desperate rally, won the third 6-2. The fourth stood at 2-5 in favor of Cochet. Johnston exerted every ounce of muscle, pulled the set up to 4-5. Then, Cochet won the last game and the Davis cup passed, for the first time in history, to France...