Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth and deciding set, with game score 5-to-4 against him, Tilden asked Umpire Muhr to watch his service closely. He then served four successive aces and soon brought the game score 9-to-8 in his favor. After that, spectators debated whether Tilden wilted or whether Lacoste became invincible, but the fact remained that Lacoste took three straight games and the championship. The match score...
...Along with the more subtle purposes for which the new remedy is designed goes the important practical one of giving the student reading of a general sort to supplement the lectures. A great real is to be said in favor of this plan. At present the lectures and the reading cover approximately the same ground, and a somewhat complete knowledge of one, combined with an incomplete knowledge of the other frequently enables a man to pass a course with a grade, for example, of C. In the future, when the student finds that lectures and reading do not actually parallel...
...Commencement orations were reported yesterday, however, which emphasize a point deserving of more attention from the college man than it now receives. The manifold opportunities for the university graduate in one or the other of the branches of the Public Service are usually brushed aside in favor of some private enterprise. They should not be. The responsibilities of government now rest largely upon the stupid, the untrained, the men of ward mentality. Certain members of the present administration at Washington are eloquent testimony to this condition. Many men today graduate with a natural aptitude for the Public Service, only...
...Croy, cited with triumph certain polls which have been taken at Dartmouth and Princeton, giving the views of such of the student body as answered the questionaires on the subjects of God and immortality. It is a matter for relief and gratification that such canvasses are not in favor in Cambridge; for whatever one's personal opinions--which at Harvard remain personal--it is not an occasion for pride to be quoted as an ally of those who sponsor the present campaign. The ghosts of Paine and Ingersoll and all other gods of the village atheist revolve rapidly in their...
Last week "Rightful King" Rupprecht, a Wittlesbach not descended in the "mad" line, must have known not only that the demonstrations in his favor can scarcely culminate in setting him on his father's throne, but also that the demonstrations might never have occurred had not the onetime Wittlesbachs been kings so unforgettably picturesque...