Word: favored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rowe '28 will introduce the question, speaking in favor of the administration. P. M. Brown, professor of International Law at Princeton University, will also uphold the affirmative side of the discussion. Professor Brown has recently returned from Nicaragua, where he made a detailed study of the situation. He was secretary of the legation to Guatemala and Honduras from 1903 until 1907, being charge d'affaires at various times. Between 1908 and 1910, he was an instructor of International Law at Harvard...
...announced: "The undersigned resumes the editorship of the Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking on another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath of no one." But immediately there was a move to oust him from control. "My misfortunes do not come 'single files, but in battalions.' And so many of my old friends hate me for what I have done that life seems too hard to bear...
...than possible that the methods of the Federation work directly to controvert a good intention. The operation of the Fund in Russia is a case in point, where little money is sent in the first place, and where, on the other hand, there is said to the discrimination in favor of certain economic and religious creeds that are not universally accepted, and whose support entails more moralizing and disagreeable proselytizing than it entails friendship and understanding...
...Harvard. President Lowell, in his annual report to the directors of Harvard University, considers the various high points of college and high school education unprejudicedly and in a manner which only one with a scope as is his could attempt. Another vast field for intellectual advancement which is very favorably considered by this eminent savant is that of self-education. In late years educators seem to have come to the conclusion both from experiment and experience that education acquired by one's own seeking, particularly along some special line of interest, is not only much more quickly apprehended but also...
...population died of cirrhosis of the liver, while in 1921 only 7.4 per million were victims of that disease. He was given a few minutes in religion courses, and allowed a portion of the chapel time. He then demanded that a snap-vote be taken. Sixty two voted in favor of strict enforcement, 39 for modification, 20 for repeal. He entered Upsala in the prohibition column of his notebook and went on to a nearby college...