Word: favors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Baron d'Estournelles de Constant will give an address on "American and European Co-operation for World Peace" in Emerson D, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Baron d'Estournelles has just finished a tour of the United States, speaking in many cities in favor of world peace and fraternity. He is one of the greatest living authorities on this subject, and one of its most untiring advocates. He was among the French delegates to the first and second Hague conferences, and is the founder and president of the International Conciliation Association, which has a strong position in this country...
...argument in favor of the honor system in conducting examinations seems to me to be based upon a mistaken view of the object of the present method of supervision by proctors. If the precise object of supervising written examinations is that of inculcating a sense of honor in the participants, there may be something said for banishing the proctor; and we may even welcome the evidence, which is doubtless trustworthy, that in some colleges where cheating has been rife and where there has been practically no public sentiment against it, the introduction of the honor system has apparently brought...
Before taking up the subject of the day, Mr. Curtis gave a brief explanation and discussion of the recent decision in the Standard Oil case. There have been two opinions held as regards the interpretation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; one favoring a narrow view and declaring illegal all combinations in restraint of trade, the other holding a broader view and calling only unreasonable restraint of trade illegal. In the Northern Securities case the Supreme Court seemed to favor the first opinion, but in its latest decision it takes sides with those who would allow reasonable restraint. The decision...
...score of 10 to 3. By winning this game, Harvard wins the intercollegiate lacrosse championship. Cornell scored twice in the first five minutes of play but weakened as the game progressed and at the end of the first half the score stood 7 to 3 in Harvard's favor...
...fairly, men of all social classes will respond to it." Professor Perry Speaks with complete knowledge of the way in which the system was received at Princeton. So to speak, his is the opinion of the specialist. And in this case, were the specialist to prescribe, he would emphatically favor the institution of the honor system. Therefore, expert advice at once eliminates the only objection to its initiation; the only objection to its initiation; namely, that being a radical change, and one weighing heavily on the individual, it would not meet the universal approval absolutely necessary for its success. Professor...