Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot, on being questioned as to whether the statement made in the Fact and Rumor column in yesterday's CRIMSON, that he was in favor of abolishing all inter-collegiate contests, was true; said that he was decidedly in favor of continuing them, since they were in a fair way to become properly regulated. He is, however, of the opinion that there are too many of them, and thinks that Yale should be our only opponent, and that our games with Princeton and Columbia should be given up. President Eliot would, also, if he had the power, abolish...
...groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly formed might not remain pure, etc. In brief, the project met no favor. Now, to me this little incident was a revelation of the low ebb to which the college tone had sunk as regards effective moral opinion. I thought I could perceive that what made this scheme unpromising was not so much the conviction that even in such clubs men would cheat...
...meal time. Mr. Burdett answered in behalf of the affirmative, and said that at present no one was available to hear complaints and have difficulties rectified at once. Mr. Surbridge supplemented the remarks of his colleague in the negative, and the debate then closed with the sentiment largely in favor of the negative side of the discussion...
...majority of the committee appointed at Princeton to take action on President McCosh's resignation, are in favor of Professor Patton, D. D., for president, and Professor Sloane for vice-president. No definite action, however, will be taken until February...
...stock of note-books furnished by the Harvard Co-operative Society met with great favor at Amherst, and were rapidly disposed...