Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This they expect to accomplish during the administration of Mayor Nichols, who is a loyal son of Harvard, and heartily in favor of Harvard football...
Later the genial Winston did his colleague Sir Austen the favor to "loan" him "No. 11 Downing,"** at which Sir Austen and Lady Cham- berlain proceeded to entertain the plenipotent signatories. A tea was likewise given to the delegates by the King and Queen at Buckingham. Elaborate festivities had originally been planned, but had to be abandoned on account of the Queen Mother's death...
...Minor Sports Council has embarked upon a commendable enterprise in attempting to improve the status of minor sports in the University. The plan to be considered,--the giving of a minor "H" to members of championship teams in place of the present award, has in its favor the success of a similar practice at Yale and other universities, as well as the obvious fairness of special recognition of successful teams by the University. It is well known that many sports which at Harvard maintain a tenuous existence at best, flourish in other places. At most of these institutions some such...
Though I did not so state in my article in the Bulletin, I am in favor of an increase in our seating capacity which will make unnecessary the unpleasant and harmful distinction which must now be made between the student and graduate bodies of the professional schools and those of the College. Nor do I consider that I am either "short-sighted" or "foolish" in favoring such a proposal...
From such hearty approval of so radical a proposal it seems safe to deduce two general truths: first, that the average college student in America is dissatisfied with lectures, such as he knows them; and second, that the same average student has a strong prepossession in favor of the tutorial system, as he has heard of it by report from the few colleges in which it has actually been tried. It may seem strange and incongruous, that students of Harvard, where the tutorial system has been tried with such great success, should hesitate and finally reject the proposal to extend...