Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...proposition of a letter delivery does not meet with much favor; "to go to the post-office after supper, and wait around until the mail is distributed is such a pleasant duty...
...game ended in favor of our Freshmen by a score of 8 to 7. Umpire, Mr. B. F. Harding...
...wont to receive. The class of men who are desirous that the order of examinations should be published early have no just ground for complaint; and the plan of putting the examinations in the Sophomore required work in the middle instead of at the end meets with decided favor. Many are relieved to find no afternoon examinations on the list, fear having been felt that this plan, which proved so objectionable in mid-years, would again be resorted to, in order to save time...
...Constantinople in 1204. Since the subject is so faintly understood, if one of our professors of history would kindly give a lecture, open to the University, on the causes of the present war, tracing the history of both countries only so far as necessary, he would confer a favor on the students that would be highly appreciated. If in the limits of a single lecture it would be impossible to treat the history with enough fulness, it might be well to indicate the best sources for supplementary information, and to confine the lecture to such points as bear directly...
...real grievance is, that the Directors, without consulting the wishes of the Association, but feeling strongly in favor of the change which they ultimately made, took upon themselves power to say that the student shall come at quarter past seven if he wish a good breakfast, and that he must come before half past eight if he wish any breakfast at all. This seems to us to be a proceeding which, though in this case productive of good, is legally unjustifiable. We understand that they have power, not to make laws, but only to carry out the wishes...