Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent agitation in favor of more mass athletics for the undergraduates may have stimulated some of the professors and instructors to take a greater interest in the athletic endeavor of the students and to wish to see for themselves how the present systems of sport are being conducted...
...than this. The whole subject is one of such vast importance and so wide spread in its ramifications that it should not be determined by a mere reiterations of slogans and cries. It is a subject which calls for very deep consideration and for logical thought. Theoretically, we all favor peace. We should be glad if the curse of war could be swept from the earth, but there is something worse than war and that is national dishonor, and there is something better than peace and that, the preservation of national sovereignty. If it were certain that a League...
...much has been said of the "Big Three". Although it is desirable for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to confer together on mutual eligibility rules and to obtain opinions from one another for the encouragement of mass athletics, it is against the spirit of Harvard to favor a league for the exclusion of others. The impression has gone forth that the University was adopting such an attitude. The undergraduates through the medium of the Student, Council are correcting this false view...
...facts are that there is positively no discrimination against a man because he is a private and there is no favor conferred upon a man because he is a commissioned officer: It all depends upon what the men did in their scholastic work. The officers were obliged to pursue courses in what were called "ground schools" or at institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology or our own university. These courses were thorough and information from Massachusetts Tech is that students did as thorough work there is such special courses as they are required to do in the regular course...
This year the Yard has been frequently troubled by "rah! rah!" riots. Rhinehart nights with their accompaniment of broken windows and smashed furniture, have been very much in favor. On one occasion, according to reports, the members of a "rough-house" went so far as to attempt hazing Freshmen...