Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Reports of Congressional committees, substantiated by the expressions of great statesmen and endorsed by present Cabinet officials, are unanimous in favor of this reform which is the consummation of all popular government; securing efficiency, publicity, and democracy...
...vote taken at Memorial Hall Sunday resulted in a decision of 462 to 210 in favor of having Sunday dinner in the evening. As this is the present arrangement no change will be made...
Although the Junior smoker held in the Small Dining Room of the Union last evening was not very largely attended, practically a unanimous vote was passed in favor of installing electric lights in the Senior dormitories. Figures were presented which gave the cost of equipping Hollis, Holworthy, Stoughton, and Thayer, as $2900. This estimate provides for three lights in each study, and one light in each bed-room. To wire the north entry of Matthews similarly, $600 more will be needed...
...also, as it happens, the work of a not very old alumnus. Mr. Edward Knoblauch, unlike the other Edward--Mr. Sheldon--has until comparatively recently been better known, or at least equally well known, in England as here. Indeed, Kismet came to America only after it had won signal favor in London in 1911, and this not because Mr. Knoblauch chose that the British stage should foster his work but that the American managers, sagacious men that they are, had refused him a production. The fact that the play will very shortly complete the second year of its run must...
...test case of Warfield v. Fallon et als., brought by the Wilson Club of the University against the registrars of Cambridge to decide whether students may vote was adjudged yesterday in favor of the petitioner. The case was first brought before Justice Sheldon of the Supreme Judicial Court sitting in Suffolk County. He referred it to the whole bench, which sent it down because of a mistake in the reservation, and the case was tried before Justice Braley. As the decision now stands, the fact that students are not self-supporting and that their parents reside in a town...