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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...result proved disastrous to the visiting club, though they played a much stronger fielding game than the previous one at Lynn. The play of our Nine was very satisfactory. The errors were very few, while several very good plays were made. The score was twelve to one in favor of the Harvards. The result of the first game was twenty-six to one, for the Harvards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...open the question of compulsory attendance at church, which undergraduates have some very decided opinions upon, we would ask here to-day, when so many of our clerical friends favor us with their presence, that these same friends consider whether or not we have grounds for this criticism upon their weekly sermons. Hard enough it is for clergymen in general to lift themselves out of the sermonizing ruts that their fathers and grandfathers wore deep for them; yet that some do so we all know; and when once we find the large - hearted, great - souled preacher, who seems to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERMONS. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

TICKETS for Class Day will be ready for distribution at 60 Thayer on Wednesday June, 10. No tickets will be delivered until the assessment of ten dollars has been paid. All persons who do not intend to take their tickets will confer a great favor upon the Class Day Committee by informing them of it as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...every instant of the time, you only have eight hours, which surely is not too much for any one. Then there are perhaps some who would pay more attention to the service if they were fully awake, and did not feel tired from want of sleep. Let those who favor the present system remember how different theory is from practice, and that they only argue a priori, while we know from experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAYERS. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

Last of all, the glasses were filled to "The Magenta," to which Mr. Van Duzer did ample justice, speaking of its general success, and the unexpected favor with which it had been received during the single year of its existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAGENTA SUPPER. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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