Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distances, and then won the four-mile championship. The year before Columbia was invincible over the short courses, and won the four-mile race at Poughkeepsie without turning a hair. So it goes, not invariable, to be sure, but with sufficient frequency to establish a fair presumption in its favor...
Princeton is strongly in favor of military training for college men, but opposed to drill as part of the university curriculum, according to a statement by Professor R. M. M. McElroy of Princeton. The intellectual side of military training, lectures, and other instruction, he believes to be a proper part of college work, but the drill should be reserved for summer military camps. Princeton tried to establish a training corps at the time of the Spanish War, and it was found to be a failure...
...list of studies chosen by 1919 for concentration shows a tendency to revert to the choice of 1917, rather than follow the lead of 1918. The third group, that of history, government, and economics, which came into favor last year, has slumped back to the standard of 1917. Twenty-six per cent. of 1919 has chosen this field of concentration, as against 31 per cent. for the Sophomores and 25 per cent. for the Juniors...
...Freshmen were in the lead 3 runs to 1 until the eighth inning, when Felton, who had previously pitched almost air-tight ball, weakened at the critical moment, passing one man and hitting another. An error by Sears was just enough to turn the tide in Andover's favor, and the Academy succeeded in putting three men across the plate, and in maintaining the one-run margin until the end of the game...
...special report explaining the main points of the issue has been drawn up by a representative committee of Union members. Although some have asserted that this committee was composed of men prejudiced in favor of compulsory membership, this statement is erroneous. After careful investigation and thought, this report was made in order to put the question fairly before the undergraduates. Many, perhaps, feel hazy as regards the true condition of the Union. Before these men vote, let them glance over this report, which will be on every voting table, and then, after careful consideration, make their decision...