Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these dormitories and at a meeting held Tuesday night, at which Deans Greenough, Whitney and Perkins, President Lowell, a representative of the Business School and the Dormitory Committee of the class of 1929 were present, the matter was discussed. The Dormitory Committees felt that although they were in favor of the proposal they did not have the power to accept the Business School's offer without first consulting the class as a whole...
...interest in debating which has recently been evidenced at the University has been held to indicate a return to undergraduate favor of that activity. The Oxford-Cambridge team which has visited this country in recent years has brought with it a new and lighter attitude towards debating, the influence of which it is not hard to see. The following comment on last weekend's debate against Yale, from the Boston Transcript, challenges the humor which is being espoused in this country as a forensic weapon. It follows in part...
...difficult to resolve. Had the governing council of the Harvard-Princeton-Yale triangle frankly declared not alone that it courted humor, but also that humor, or its absence, was to be the chief test of victory or defeat, the decision might very easily have been given--and given in favor of Yale. The council, however, has agreed upon no such instruction. It seems clear in its own mind that it desires to introduce laughter into debate, but it is not yet convinced that it desires debating to become only a laughing-stock...
...feeling among the people of the United States as they have come to realize the necessity of the League in preserving world peace and order. I am firmly convinced that if the matter were now referred to a general vote of the people, the result would be overwhelmingly in favor of our entry into the League. Although the government may not seem to realize this now, the pressure of popular feeling will inevitably produce the desired effect...
...doing this the Chancery Club has the support of President Lowell and the Law School faculty. President Lowell has always expressed himself in favor of getting the students of the University together, and Professor A. W. Scott said at a dinner of the club recently, that while he was not in favor of doing away with classroom work, he felt that it should be supplemented by such discussion as the Chancery Club offers...