Word: favors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholastic victory of the University has brought to the foreground at Yale the matter of more intensive requirements for concentration. The position of a member of the Yale team, reported yesterday, is very distinctly in favor of courses more difficult than those demanded at present of the honors man, who alone has the privilege of concentrating his work in a particular field. There is also implicated a request that every student should choose, as at Harvard, a field of concentration: this attitude, together with approving words for the tutorial system, is indication that Yale has been stirred to sincere self...
...Polled 3 to 1 in favor of unbobbed hair for women in a straw vote decorously conducted by the Conservative Evening Standard. In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled...
...Monologuist Draper. Was she any the less an "actress," they stormed, because during her recitals she assumes successively all the roles of an entire cast instead of confining herself to one? Somebody ought to speak to the Lord Chamberlain! Shameful that he should let the bars down in favor of an American. Probably some relation to Coolidge. Fiddlers in his family, too, My Dear! Courtiers smiled away such absurdities. They recalled that Edward of Wales attended a recital by Miss Draper some years ago and later spoke favorably of her in his family circle. Therefore in July 1926, by royal...
...abolish life tenure of bishops;* went on record against military training for schoolboys; accepted the recommendations of the Committee on Episcopacy to the effect that there be 21 areas in the United States and 12 in foreign parts; considered a committee's report which suggested liberalizing in favor of the innocent party church rulings against divorce...
...they admitted a shrewd arriére-pensée: "We will, by actually stopping broadcasting, be able to determine by test if the public is in favor of our return to the air. Our equipment and installation will be kept intact...