Word: favoured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mandate was embodied the object of the Balfour declaration of November 2, 1917: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of that object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country...
...Thackeray's "The Rose and the Ring" at the end of this term. Another University Club, the Footlight Dramatics Club, is contenting itself with promoting an all night Ball and Cabaret Entertainment. This is arousing great undergraduate interest, though naturally the University authorities do not regard it with any favour...
...Union. It was crowded with undergraduates and as the results came trickling in and it was seen which way the poll was going the cheers and counter cheers of the different parties roused excitement to a fever pitch. In the University election one of the Candidates returned is in favour of the admission of women to the University, so there will be many feminine hearts made glad as a result...
...United States'" Subsequently, he sued the trustees for libel and demanded the pension to which he was nominally untitled. An award of 245,000 was recently made him. It is a question, avers the "Nation", whether in 1917 the jury would have awarded the verdict in the man's favour, despite the justice of his cause. "But," concludes the comment, "times have changed, and universities can no longer bully a professor as they felt free to do when they had the patriotic pack behind them...