Word: favour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Circulation of a petition to obtain 500 signatures in favour of the opening of University dining hall next year has been halted. It was learned last night. A. G. Hart '30, in charge of the petition, the declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition, declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition to President Lowell this spring in order to permit the completion of the new dining hall next year...
Then arguments of the 101 college professors who have signed a statement in favour of immediate arbitration with Mexico on the question of alien land rights are very much to the point. These men feel that immediate action is necessary before the issue "becomes one of national pride and sentiment", and before "feeling may be aroused which will make impossible the judicial settlement now possible." Professorial arguments may not have been of much influence in United States foreign politics, but at least they cannot be regarded as emanating from men who are uninformed...
...Ferguson has surrendered the governorship of Texas in a blaze of notoriety. During her term of office she has evinced an almost complete lack of executive ability and a strange predilection in favour of prisoners, over 3000 of whom she has pardoned. By a probably unprecedented reverse English on petticoat government, she is said to have been misdirected by her husband, former governor James Ferguson...
...Reverend George L. Paine, in his letter in today's CRIMSON presenting the orthodox view in favour of the erection of a chapel as a War Memorial, grants by implication that perhaps the most important object of a War Memorial is to aid in removing the possibility of future...
...matter and spirit, as so many half-educated people are to-day; nor would be necessarily have missed the formative influence of the elective system and of intensive study in some special field. It is said that requirements kill initiative--that the survey method encourages superficiality; but we should favour the retention of the elective system in the domain of specialized studies, and the development of an even more intensive specialization of work is frankly special. The thing that we are quarrelling with is the regime of compromise which throws so much of the student's time into the region...