Word: favor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...refusing to publish the minority report. Had the majority of the board restricted their report to the presentation of a plan of reorganization the injustice of their action would not have been so great. As a matter of fact, however, they accompanied this report with an argument in favor of its adoption. In all justice then they should have included the argument of the minority against the change. I must ask the courtesy of the CRIMSON for the publication of a few considerations not yet advanced...
...fourth inning the score was 6 to 1 in favor of the Seniors. Owing to Winsor's weakening and the superior fielding of the Juniors the 1903 team made ten runs in the next four innings, while their opponents were unable to score again...
...each member of the Society as the majority report will. Even if this is true all the members of the Society as well as the few who attended the last annual meeting should examine thoroughly the proposed plan and see what it means before depositing a vote in favor of it. It means a Co-operative Society which has been a marked success is to be given up. Though the students at the University stay here but a little while and cannot take the assets of the Co-operative Society with them when they go, yet we ought to have...
...hardly two lengths of open water separated the boats. From there to Harvard bridge, both crews raised the stroke slightly and took occasional spurts, but the first was unable to gain. If there was any difference in the relative positions of the boats at the bridge it was in favor of the second crew...
...successful attempt to supply a much needed sort of undergraduate literature--light humor in verse and prose--marks the last number of the Advocate. Stories of that too common type, describing the piquant adventures of a conventional hero and heroine, have happily been passed by in favor of others which are frankly intended to be amusing and nothing more...