Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Students attending Conference universities of the Middle West are overwhelmingly in favor of repealing the rule which prohibits athletes from playing summer baseball. Six of the universities cast a total vote of 2,985 for repeal of the rule, while only 348 were in favor...
...valuable one as it offers excellent opportunities for getting in close touch with the business workings of a modern magazine. The work will consist of soliciting advertisements and getting subscriptions, with a certain amount of clerical work at the office. The competition is long but this is in its favor as the whole work is spread over a larger field and is therefore made more practical as well as lighter for the individual. From three to five candidates are usually taken on to the business staff at the close of the competition...
...Thursday of November. It is doubtful whether any large number of persons could be induced to lay profane hands upon an institution which has been fixed since the days when the Puritan fathers waxed thankful for bounteous crops. But as far so college men are concerned, they would undoubtedly favor a week-end holiday which would allow many of them to eat turkey in their own homes, and save the inevitable anti-climax of the following blue Friday and Saturday...
Tomorrow's meeting will be conducted according to the following rules: Speakers will be limited to five minutes, at the end of which times the chairman will take a vote as to whether the speaker may continue or not. All those who favor lending aid to the Allies will sit on the chairman's right, and those opposed will sit on his left. In the center there will be a small section for neutral persons. At the end of a speech anyone may change sides, without necessarily admitting that he has been won over, merely to show his approval...
...attention of Freshmen who wish to make a start in a valuable college activity is called to the Freshman Debating Society, which organizes tonight. Debating is now completely an undergraduate matter; and as such it has risen in favor. Needless to say the man who debates in his Freshman year has the advantage in attaining University honors in that direction later...