Word: favorable
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...clear and concise statement of the arguments and principles of constitutional construction. These cases do not really come into the work of History 13, yet as they involve rules of construction and the decision modifies previous decisions, it would seem that Dr. Taussig would confer a great favor on all the members of his large section, by giving at one of his lectures the facts of the cases and the grounds for both the decision of the court and of the opinion of the dissenting judges...
...score in the game yesterday between the Holyokes and Adams Academy nine, was 19 to 8 in favor of the former. Only five innings were played. The following men played on the Holyokes: Crocker, c., Chamberlain, p., Woodbury, 1 b., H. Coolidge, 2 b., Burnett, 3 b., Loud, s. s., Presbrey, l. f., Simkins, c. f., Bruner...
...performs the service asked to be made voluntary. There was a manifest impropriety in putting any clergyman on such a committee, much more two who may fairly be called interested parties. The petition of the undergraduates was the largest ever known, and the college faculty is notoriously strongly in favor of making prayers 'elective.' The incident is one more evidence of the growing antagonism between the overseers and the faculty, the only natural governing power in the university...
Yesterday, in a game between the Memorials and Cambridge High School, the score was 21 to 6 in favor of the former...
...play, however, lay in the acting of Cushing, Hearst, and Swinscoe. These three gentlemen have an uncommon power of producing comic effect. Their superiority to the other performers was partly due to a careful avoidance, on their part, of all meaningless gesticulation. Swinscoe and Hearst immediately won the favor of the audience by their irresistible humor, and acrobatic movements. Cushing's ballet, in itself a work of art in that line, was made most ludicrous by the gigantic proportions assumed by his body in ballet costume. The low stage, and the level floor of the hall, however, prevented many from...