Word: favor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...professor can be quoted as saying he will introduce a motion to abolish the game. Considerable numbers of professors express themselves, if football is to go on, as in favor of a dual league with Harvard and treating other games as subsidiary and for "practice" merely...
...Tremont St., Boston.LOST. - A pair of light brown gentleman's street gloves. Finder will confer a favor by leaving at Leavitt & Peirce...
...tfLOST. - A pair of light brown gentleman's street gloves. Finder will confer a favor by leaving at Leavitt & Peirce...
Wendell Phillips was born in Boston in 1811. He studied at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1834. Events soon arose which changed the course of his life. Seeing a printer, who had come forward in favor of the abolition of slavery, in the hands of an angry mob, his sympathies were aroused in the cause of anti-slavery. Anne Green, who afterwards became his wife, had espoused the anti-slavery cause, and he was moved by her influence. With his marriage ended his law practice...
...meeting called to express indignation at the killing of Loverjoy. From that time on he was the champion of the anti-slavery movement, using his unequalled powers of oratory in its cause. The fight was over when Lincoln called for volunteers, and the abolitionists came into popular favor...