Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received a delegation of those who favor an Ail-American ship canal to the Great Lakes through New York State...
Small men with momentary reforms and transient fancies arise to enjoy brief hours upon the stage of public favor. President Eliot for years has been the sage and sufficient reference for such little men. Like some wiser leader of an often flippant people he has continued the just and mellow sage whose words are never hollow, ever filled with wisdom and purpose. The CRIMSON extends to President Eliot sincerest good wishes on this, his ninety-second birthday...
...tariff situation which is taking place in the United States. In the days of Cleveland and Bryan the Middle--Western farmers were vigorous opponents of the large protectionist manufacturers. Now, as the Canadian Forum points out, many manufacturers are becoming free trade advocates while numerous agrarian organizations favor a reasonably high tariff. Particularly do the farmers see the need of duties on agricultural imports which can be produced at a much cheaper rate in Canada, Argentina, and New Zealand. The manufacturers, on the other hand, due to improved, automatic machinery and quantity production find themselves able to compete with...
There is, of course, still a considerable class of farmers represented by Senator Norris to whom this new classification does not apply. The administration by its control of the Commission in the interest of continued high rates indicates, too the there is as yet no unanimity in favor of free trade among the business interests. The traditional alignment is not yet obliterated but the general tendency of thought in the two classes is being reversed. The forthcoming campaign should throw an interesting light on this new current of opinion...
...junior college as in the freshman or sophomore class of the ordinary college or university. The opportunities for browsing around libraries, the possibilities of contact with an inspiring lecturer or tutor are much more numerous at the higher institutions. The elimination from the universities of this plastic period in favor of developing the highly specialized graduate schools does not seem the best method of sloving the problem. By insisting on a greater standard of endeavor from the primary grades upwards, by widening the present scope of the schools even at the expense of a departure from the traditional trivium...