Word: favor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first outdoor practice for the University and Freshman baseball candidates was held yesterday afternoon. A practice game, the first of the season, was played between two teams from the University squad, and the score was 9 to 6 in favor of team A. The 1918 candidates had some fielding practice under the direction of H. L. Nash '16, and a few of their battery men worked in the regular game...
Later in the season an interdormitory tournament open to all Freshmen except members of the 1918 squad will be held on the Soldiers Field courts under the supervision of the Freshman manager candidates. There will be no dormitory teams but each match won will count one point in favor of the dormitory represented. The winner and runner-up will be taken on the Freshman squad...
Undergraduate opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of the contention that the purpose of the examinations is not attained. A few minutes' hurried reading of a selection which may range in subject matter from architecture to fiction is not a dependable test. The man whose special field is chemistry, whose need and probable ability lies in scientific German, is likely to be asked to read a description of the battle of Sadowa, or the retreat from Moscow. This means not only a wrong emphasis, but a decided and unfair advantage to the man who happens to draw something "in his line...
...Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon will present the sixth and last performance of Farquhar's "The Beaux' Stratagem" in the Rogers' Hall School, Lowell, this evening at 8 o'clock. The revival has met with much general favor in its previous performances owing to the witty dialogue and lively and amusing situations. After the performance there will be dancing until 11.30. Reserved seat tickets will be 75 cents, and may be obtained at Steinert's, in Lowell...
...assumptions on which you say the arguments in favor of these camps are based is that "adequate armament" is itself the best guarantee for peace. Has not this been proved in the case of Switzerland during the present war? That country by means of a military system, which many of our experts advise for adoption here, has compelled both France and Germany to respect her neutrality for the past eight months. To see what her condition might be today without a well-organized militia, one only has to look at Belgium. Geographical conditions have aided her, but those alone would...