Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadowy silence in which he had been discreetly kept during the campaign. Their goal was Greenbelt, $10,000,000 model suburb which Dr. Tugwell is building on 8,000 rolling Maryland acres five miles north of the District of Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine its activities chiefly to drought relief, financed by handouts from WPA. With a thoroughgoing Governmental re-organization in prospect, Administrator Tugwell was last week jockeying strenuously to get his emergency...
Though return to the old rules was not advocated by too tremendous a majority, 792 to 433, voters rejected revision and standardization of these rules by 692 to 412. The Oxford card system found little favor as a method of revision, being snowed under by almost a 3 to 1 count...
...Leverett House went the honor of piling up the largest landslide against the Two-Women rule. The Rabbits reacted from their "monasticism" of a few years ago and voted 157 to 1 for social freedom. The single vote in favor of the rule was obviously satiric, since the balloter stated on the back that he thought the law "just keen" and that it kept boys from the "awfulest trouble...
...night superintendent of one of the Houses expressed himself as being in favor of a credit union plan similar to the one in effect at Fileno's and other department stores. By this system an employee is able to secure a life insurance policy at a greatly reduced premium, and also may voluntarily deposit part of his weekly savings and receive a greater amount of interest than a bank can pay on similar deposits...
College Board Examinations give only a restricted basis for judging a man's capabilities and should be discarded as far as possible in favor of regular Harvard entrance examinations. These could be used to determine whether a student could do justice to the three-year program. Twenty-six schools already cooperate with the college in eliminating College Boards, and the extension of the idea is the next logical step toward that smoothing of the transition from school to college which President Conant's January Report called for. This would encourage good secondary school training, as would permission for Freshmen...