Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large wooden figure purchased in Pekin, and now on exhibition, represents the seventeenth-century type of religious sculpture which has been largely ignored in favor of earlier and more archaic sculpture...
Claims Undergraduate Favor...
...Among graduates, sentiment is almost without dissent in favor of the House Plan. The Executive Committee of the Council of Associated Harvard Clubs, numbering among its members men from all over the country, the other day took action unanimously approving the plan...
...CRIMSON Mr. Williams, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, points out three significant aspects of the new House plan which, while not altogether unconsidered, will bear iteration. First, he attributes any opposition the plan has incurred to ignorance of it and its purpose. Secondly, he points to the unanimous favor of graduates and tries to build up a case of undergraduate approval. Thirdly, he admits that the details of the plan should be given the most careful attention...
...Williams, however, is too optimistic in his general observations upon the success of the House plan and its long endurance. It is just as possible that many who favor the plan are influenced by lack of information as those who oppose it. He is certainly true when he says that the great majority of undergraduates know nothing about the plan. The CRIMSON referendum of two years ago, almost forgotten in the renewal of the question this year, definitely proves that even undergraduate ignorance and indifference refused to sanction the proposed plan and voted against its adoption. There is no reason...