Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prominent a feature of American college life. In 1861 the call for volunteers was responded to by many a patriotic son of Harvard and Yale who would otherwise have competed for the laurels of the oar. Partly on this account, and partly because the faculty seemed disinclined to favor a continuance of the sport, the annual boat-race was given...
Lost-Vol. 1 of Cowper's Poems, making one of a set belonging to the university library. The finder will confer a favor by returning the same to 47 Thayer...
...inning Princeton made one more run on errors by Phillips and Crocker. For Harvard, Phillips scored on a base hit, a steal and two passed balls. Princeton failed to improve their score in the ninth and so the game closed with the score 15 to 3 in Harvard's favor...
...every student, if he has not already done so. The present canvass, which is, however, confined to the two upper classes, will serve to bring the subject fresh to the minds of every one and offer to every one an opportunity of putting himself on record as in favor or against a reduction of the tariff...
...goal, and once or twice the Yale men shot dangerously near Harvard's goal; but drake was there and defended his post well, ably seconded by the defence men. Time was called at the end of an hour and a half, with the score standing 2 to 1 in favor of Yale...