Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Board of Overseers, yesterday, it was voted to print both the majority and minority reports on the petition of the alumni in favor of allowing the nine to play with professionals...
Some inquiring mind has put a slip among the "Notes and Queries," in the Library, asking: "How many men at Harvard are in favor of prohibition? If you don't know, guess." There are several answers, denoting a varied process of guesswork: 96 per cent.; 2 per cent.; 47 per cent.; 53 per cent.; 90 per cent.; 10 per cent.; 66 2-3 per cent.; 33 1-3 per cent.; 0 per cent.; 1-5 per cent, and 1-100 per cent...
...challenge has been received by the Columbia freshmen from the Yale freshmen to row them a two mile race on the Thames at New London within a week of the Yale-Harvard 'Varsity race. The Columbia men favor such a proposition, but acting on the advice of the boat club, they will probably refuse the challenge...
...circular was favorably received by the majority of members, and Messrs. G. W. Green, J. B. Ames, and A. H. Latham were chosen to present the request to the faculty. Meanwhile, a similar movement had been started in Boston, with the result that some two hundred additional names were collected in favor of the request. On Tuesday last, at an informal meeting, Mr. Green presented the request to the faculty and made an able speech in its favor. The matter was discussed in all its aspects, the faculty evincing a desire to weigh the merits of the question thoroughly before...
...generally supposed that the M. C. C. will accept the recommendation of the Council, and will amend Law 24, as suggested. Such action would undoubtedly be followed in this country, as many of our leading cricketers favor such a step. The effect would be to give the slow breaking bowler a much greater opportunity than he has previously had, and, for a time at least, to reduce the scoring...