Word: favor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although three men and a substitute of the Pennsylvania team of last year, which was second in the intercollegiate series, are back this year, the team has lost several easy games. For this reason the chances seem to favor Harvard...
...hands of the ministers, and then into those of the mistresses of the king, the worst of whom was the notorious Madame Du Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once the tide had turned, each new mistake...
...purchase of championship cups for the seasons of 1903 and 1904 was authorized. E. H. Bedell of Stevens Institute of Technology, who was present as a representative of the Intercollegiate Association, made up of Johns Hopkins, Stevens, Swarthmore and Lehigh, reported that all the teams in the Intercollegiate Association favor a consolidation of that association with the Inter-University League. C. C. Miller of the advisory committee of the Inter-University League, P. H. Adams '05 of Harvard, and E. H. Bedell were appointed a committee to outline a scheme for the union of the two leagues, to be submitted...
...both halves the University team kept the puck almost entirely in Andover's territory, and shot repeatedly. The Andover goal-keeper and the point made many difficult stops, however, and the half ended with the score 1 to 0 in favor of Harvard...
...incompatible with the best interest of the class. The man who electioneers forcibly brings to light the weakness of his candidate; for if the man is worthy of election there would be no point gained in foisting him upon the class. The practices of passing around printed sheets in favor of candidates and of covertly soliciting votes through the mail are methods which the class should effectively condemn. Every man in the class, therefore, should go to the polls to vote for the man whom he honestly believes best fitted for the office for which he is nominated, and thus...