Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Seasongood was elected temporary chairman of the meeting for next week. The subject of debate for next Wednesday is announced as follows: "Resolved, That the United States should interefere in the Cuban Rebellion in favor of the Insurgents." The speakers for the affirmative will be S. B. Snow and J. F. Morrison, and for the negative, E. Sachs and J. E. McCloskey...
...order to enable the audience to see the action; and, finally, the supposed evidence of the theatre at Megalopolis and of certain pictures upon Greek vases from lower Italy. He showed that not only is the evidence of the plays themselves and also of other branches of literature in favor of the united action of actors and chorus on the same orchestral level, but that in none of the Greek theatres of the classical age, of which many have recently been laid open, has a genuine stage been discovered. What has hitherto been identified as a stage-the proskenion...
...still effectively oppose McKinley's tariff policy. (1) In the few remaining months of the present Congress no general tariff act could pass (Harper's Weekly, Aug. 12, '96). (2) The next Congress which convenes Dec., '97, might, if an energetic campaign were made, be controlled by those who favor a moderate tariff, (Harper's Weekly, Aug. 12, '96). (B) The opposition of the Gold Democrats to high protective tariff would be more effective if they had voted for McKinley. (1) By pointing to their own patriotism in subordinating their other views to the demands of sound money, they might...
...very close and well played, and at one time it looked as if Beaman would win. Beaman is a left-handed player who won the Princeton interscholastic championship the year before he came to college. He won the first set from Foster and had 5-4 in his favor in the second, but Foster braced up and won the set 7-5, and after that had no difficulty in getting the third set and match...
There are a great many arguments in favor of the Christmas trip, and few if any upon which the Faculty can reasonably abolish its continuance. It affords a number of men a chance to make during the holidays, when there is no college work to be done, an extremely pleasant and not uninstructive journey which they could not make at their own expense...