Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst class races resulted in favor of the Juniors; time, 18 m. 6s. The Student thinks that out of the twenty-four men who took part in these races, a good crew can be picked for the next year's regatta. In some athletic sports the record was as follows: 100-yard dash, 10 s. Best baseball throw, 326 ft. 9 in. Three-mile walking-race, 26 m. 50 s.; last half-mile in 3 m. 20 s. Best high jump, 4 ft. 6 in. 100-yard three-legged race, 12 s. Two-mile running-race...
EXTRACT from the themes of 93 Juniors, see Psalms i.; from themes of 67 others, "token of Divine favor...
...very strange, and a case without parallel; but this defence, poor as it was, is destroyed by the fact that this same charge is made even if the check is drawn on a Boston bank. But it may be said that only regular customers can expect to obtain especial favors, and that students are not included in this class. That is all true enough, only it is not an especial favor that is demanded, but our rights. We give the bank an amount of money greater than we receive, and this tax then is demanded as a payment for changing...
...like, and are thus at times no less responsible than Sophomores for the continuance of the practice of hazing, I send this circular to the parents of both Sophomores and Freshmen, and I urge upon them promptly to throw the whole weight of their influence and authority in favor of the continued abandonment of a custom which has been a reproach to the College and its students, a serious obstacle to the work of both, and which, if not now revived, we may hope has lost its vitality forever...
...regard to the foul, with a very few remarks we can afford to let the subject rest; inasmuch as everybody capable of judging of the courses and position of the two boats at the time of the foul has decided in favor of Harvard, with the exception of the Yale crew themselves...