Word: favors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thousand. But an even greater question is involved; for the stability of our industries, the very prosperity of the country, depends in large part on our overseas shipping facilities. On account of the lack of ships our exporters have suffered severely from excessive freight rates, unfair discrimination in favor of foreign competitors and, in many cases, actual loss of business. The great factor in correcting these conditions and stabilizing our home industries will be re-establishment of the merchant marine which will restore to American industry the control of the distribution and sale of its products...
...Graduate Schools Society has been circulating a petition to the President, asking him to use his influence in favor of national prohibition during the war. Graduate students who have not already signed this resolution may do so at Phillips Brooks House at any time before 5 o'clock Thursday evening. Someone ought to have spunk enough to start a similar petition among the undergraduates. The President is waiting for the development of public opinion. Let every man do his part in its mobilization. EDWIN C. KEMBLE...
...reported from many sources that agricultural work, which exempts from the draft, has come highly into the favor of a large number of sons of the big cities. They have heard, with a voice that may not be denied, the call for going to the land. They have purchased overalls of the latest 1917 model from the clothiers, and now besiege dairy, truck and ranch farmers with requests for any work of an arduous kind which will increase their country's food production, all the way from milking cows to raking the leaves off the front lawn...
...part of the country at least, because of the requirements of military training, and as yet there has been little or no attempt to organize a substitute. Undoubtedly the action of the Athletic Association is justified, chiefly on account of lack of time. But there is another argument in favor of it. A great deal of importance is attached to intercollegiate contests; so much that the players devote all their attention and interest to them. At times they become almost professional, with an object of such paramount importance as military preparation in the field, no one can afford to devote...
...recent faculty resolutions passed at Brown, which give credit to students who leave college to go into farming, and in order to emphasize the need of agriculture and intensive cultivation of the soil in the present crisis, President Faunce, of that university, has come out personally in favor of it. He has stated that "65 acres of land in Scituate have been secured on which a picked group of Brown students will be able to camp and devote the summer to cultivation...