Word: favor
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FINALLY, universal education is an essential component of our political system. Popular democracy rejects noblesse oblige in favor of the sovereignty of the common people. However, this presupposes an informed electorate or at least one that is capable of becoming informed through reading and writing...
...perhaps ironic that the house masters themselves have been divided over the plan. That conflict is responsible for the new system itself--a compromise between those who favor complete randomization and others who back the current system...
Some have speculated that what may prove to be an unsatisfactory compromise will ultimately end in completely random assignments. Jewett and other administrators have maintained in the past that they would favor a completely random system...
Although it is not known exactly how many overseers presently favor complete divestment, next year's Board could well include several members with enough public stature to press the University on the issue...
...slate, Tutu and Overseer Sen. Albert J. Gore '69 (D-Tenn.) have already said they support a stronger divestment stand. Activists have also said that Paul G. Kirk '60, the former Democratic Party chair who is a Harvard candidate up for a seat on the Board this year, might favor total divestment...