Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHEN the Harvard Book appeared, it met with great favor, and the first edition was speedily exhausted ; yet the high price of the book placed it beyond the reach of a large majority of the students. The hard times have interfered somewhat with the class photograph orders, so that the graduate no longer takes away a full album. In such a state of things what could be more acceptable than a cheap and convenient book containing full information about this College and the city in which it is situated...
YOUR last issue contained a letter signed "'81," the object of which was to promulgate the existence of a Freshman Glee Club. As a Freshman myself I may say that, while the idea embodied in the correspondence is one that should meet generally with favor, yet the manner in which that idea was set forth is exceedingly distasteful to a large number of Freshmen. We have no desire to compare ourselves yet with the Junior class, and any attempt to do so is certainly ridiculous in the extreme...
...importance of forming Associations among American Colleges to raise the Standard of Scholarship"; and Colonel T. W. Higginson will deliver an address on the history, objects, and needs of the Association. For four years this Association has been before the public, and every year it has met with less favor than it received the year before. As we have had occasion to show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only one contest which we are not better provided with at home, namely, the contest in oratory. Even this...
...elective system itself, in contrast with a uniform curriculum required of all students, is never so much as called in question : but there are minor details of the system which are still discussed; as, for example, whether this course or that be a desirable one; whether this system unduly favor the classics, the modern languages, philosophy, history, or science; whether the choice of the individual student be oftenest determined by sound or trivial consideration; and whether any general advice as to choice of studies could be profitably given by the Faculty. . . . . The average student, with the help of his instructors...
...sacrifice, but, inconvenient as it is to the lower classes to be obliged to look to their friends for shelter on this day, it is much worse for Seniors who wish to spread to have their plans disarranged through the unwillingness of a few students to confer a favor which, when it comes their turn to ask for a place in which to receive their friends, will be repaid them by their successors...