Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument in favor of the retention of these elections is that the men can serve to represent their class. But this is not fair representation, because the elections themselves are a farce. The members of the Union Committee and its chairman are far better fitted to serve as the standard bearers for the new class. Their selection is carefully and democratically made, in order to represent a cross section of the entire group, from high school and prep school, from East and West...
...sure to enrich the Harvard community. The plan is frankly experimental. The exact path of development cannot now be traced. Since no building is involved and no additions to our staff are required, the scheme is flexible and if found impractical can be modified or indeed abandoned in favor of some other project which may seem more promising. We are, however, embarking on this enterprise with high hopes, confirmed by the favorable opinion of many journalists, editors and publishers who have been consulted. I believe that through this new undertaking Harvard may have the privilege of making a useful contribution...
...thing is to be said in favor of the picture--the music by Cole Porter. But by listening to the radio for an evening, anyone is sure to hear "Rosalie" and "In The Still of the Night" at least a half dozen times...
...that New York's luckless County Clerk Albert Marinelli, who resigned from office month ago in the face of charges that members of his staff were ex-convicts, had issued the passports as a special kindness to a Mr. A, who had forwarded the applications as a political favor to a Mr. B, who obliged a Mr. C who had wanted to help his old crony Mr. D. At week's end, Mr. D was embarrassing his friends' friend, Albert Marinelli. by remaining in hiding...
Educators who favor an education based upon the social sciences look for vocational studies as its inevitable corallary. Yet making Harvard a vocational school would not only be contradicting the respectable cultural traditions of past presidents, but also those of the University's present head. President Conant has made it plain that he desires a return to the "liberal arts"; he has spent much effort to develop a program whereby both the student and the public may become conscious of our American civilization and interested in its general progress. It does not seem that neither he nor even the Harvard...