Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team will present practically the same line-up as in the game against Andover last Saturday. Platt, who has been temporarily out because of an injured eye, will be back in the game. The Freshmen's frequent practice this week should count in their favor in today's game...
...Committee on Military Affairs of the Massachusetts, Legislature yesterday reported favorably on the bill granting to the regiment of the University and of other colleges in the Commonwealth the privilege of drilling and parading with firearms. President Lowell, Captain Cordier, Mr. J. W. Farley '99 and other Harvard graduates spoke in favor of the bill before the Committee...
...Greatly as--I am in favor of this measure I cannot believe that it would be advantageous to give credits toward a degree. One cannot consider military training an intellectual pursuit, and a degree at Harvard is given for intellectual attainments. Intellectual training and patriotism are both valuable, but they are not equivalent...
Captain Cordier, who is instructing the University Regiment, said he feared a gradual slackening of interest if guns were not provided. Adjutant General Cole also appeared in favor of the bill, pointing out that it gave complete control of the organization to the state authorities
Since the ineligibility of the five Yale baseball players was declared last fall, there has been a steady growth of sentiment in favor of their re-instatement. Unprejudiced observers are convinced that the men disqualified were not guilty of any attempt to break the athletic rules. It had been a continued custom for some Yale men to play baseball for their board at the summer camp in question; like most athletes, they had not read the rules, and were ignorant of the fact that they contained a prohibition of this very thing. It is futile now to blame the committee...