Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quote from the circular of the league: "It is believed that the moment is ripe for the consolidation of public sentiment in favor of good government by the formation of a new and large National League for the complete abolition of the spoils system. It is desired thoroughly to popularize the movement and to make it effective in every part of the United States. Membership in the new league is to be without dues, although voluntary contributions will be welcomed...
...take such an interest in this matter, is most significant and most encouraging for the cause of the higher education of women. No one will deny this. To the petition itself there will be no objection. It is pretty safe to say, however, that a majority of those who favor the new relation of Harvard and the Annex agree with the main point of the petition, the request that students of Radcliffe College shall have degrees direct from Harvard as our students do. The only difference is that the petitioners want this from the beginning while the others simply hope...
...figures do not show a startling increase and their significance does not lie in the fact that they point to a sudden revulsion of feeling in favor of Harvard. They simply indicate the beginning of what will probably be a steady wideninging of the field from which Harvard will draw her students. To discover this just at this time is particularly gratifying for it shows that the skeptics and conservatives all over the country who have looked with grave concern on Harvard's elective system and noncompulsory attendance at chapel are beginning to see that these are steps in advance...
...only serious argument that is ever brought forward in favor of the seminar system is that it provides an easy method for men to earn money for their college expenses. This is doubtless true, and whatever measures are adopted to overthrow the system will probably not be such as to make it absolutely impossible to give seminars and to earn money in this way. No rule can be passed forbidding them, for rules would not affect outside tutors and there would be an obvious injustice to a college man who happened to want to give seminars. The Faculty can take...
...Andrews of Brown, Professor E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia, and Hon. W. E. Barrett, speaker of the Massachusetts House. The subject was: "Resolved, That the power of railroad corporations should be further limited by national legislation." Harvard had the negative side, and the judges decided in her favor...