Word: favor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee appointed by the Faculty will be able to feel that not only is the general plan of adopting a course of physical training here, one which is approved by those who have considered the question carefully, but also that a course counting toward a degree would meet with favor. Further, Mr. Hemenway's liberal offer in guarantee of the expense that would be incurred in adding physical training to the University curriculum, greatly simplifies the matter, and will certainly help to hasten a decision...
...examination of the tables shows that the vote by decades is in every instance in favor of the extension. Only thirteen of the sixty-nine classes voting show a majority opposed to the change, and four "break even." The classes opposing the extension are '40, '41, '49, '51, '53, '58, '66, '71, '75, '88, '97. The classes that voted even are those...
...occupied by the old Naval Observatory, and who left a large endowment fund, which has been lost, through negligence on the part of the government. The object of this bill is to found an institution, which would obviate the necessity of foreign study. The present general movement in favor of the university was begun in 1891 by the appointment of a committee, of which Chief Justice Fuller is chairman. As the Senate bill only carries with it an appropriation of a few thousand dollars, for preliminary organization, a committee, composed of representative women, has been formed for the purpose...
...been shown by the CRIMSON news articles explanatory of the systems in operation at other colleges, there are a number which seem to have worked well and might meet with favor here. Whether any of these courses, prescribed or elective, counting or not giving credit for an A. B., are applicable, and whether the idea of a fixed course of indoor training is not dangerous in itself as discouraging open air exercise, are questions to be discussed at the conference this evening. It is to be hoped that they will meet with the careful consideration of many undergraduates, and that...
...delegates are to be Professor I. N. Hollis, F. W. Moore '93, and E. G. Burgess '98. The conference, as has already been stated, will have no binding effect on the universities represented, but the opinions expressed and the general conclusions reached will, it is hoped, react in favor of uniformity of regulations governing college athletics in the East...