Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Peking the U. S. Minister, John Van Antwerp MacMurray made a hurried trip to visit Baron Shidehara in Tokyo, endeavoring to convince the Japanese Foreign Minister of the soundness of his own views. What they said was naturally privy to themselves; but Mr. MacMurray is widely believed to favor much sterner measures toward China than are approved by President Coolidge; and consequently Baron Shidehara almost certainly was obliged to assume his most courteous, most waxlike smile...
...Maire's Affairs. There are those who deplore burlesque in favor of more subtle satire like Americana. Others love display, like Lucky. Some would prefer Le Maire's Affairs, full of crudely ridiculous skits, awkward clowning (by Charlotte Greenwood), amazing absurdities (by Lester Allen), pretty chorus girls, striking ensembles. Two numbers, the cameo dance and the minstrel drill are as pleasing to the eye as anything in town. The skits are funny-at times, definitely embarrassing; Ted Lewis' band jazzes well toward the end. After a few more presentations, the show will probably be corrected for tempo...
...Worcester believes that the club tables in the Union are not proving beneficial as had been hoped, and that their lack of interest expressed in the small attendance of meetings called to discuss club tables is indicative that the Freshmen are not in favor of the plan...
...Plan was created in 1911 and gained favor steadily until five years ago, when Harvard embarked on another adventure of admission. It was decided then that a boy who stood in the top-seventh of his class during his last two school years, and had included studies which would satisfy the New Plan requirements, might be admitted without examination. This plan checked the growth in the number of students entering Harvard under the New Plan. In 1925 314 Freshmen entered without examination, 32 percent of the class...
...student car rule is judicious, fair, and the only alternative time will show it to be such. If it is not, the presumption of trust in the administrators is in favor of the proposition that they will admit they are wrong if they are wrong...