Word: favorable
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There is no better way to ascertain in what favor Harvard is held by young men preparing for college in the different localities of this country than by a comparison of the statistics of the various freshman classes. It has been the custom of the CRIMSON for several years to collect these statistics in order to find out the rise or decline of Harvard influence in the different states, cities and above all, the large preparatory schools of the United States. To begin with, below will be found a list of the number of the men who have entered...
...plan has been talked of very freely by the medical profession in Boston and the East, and has received universal commendation. The Boston medical journals have come out with editorials endorsing the plan. The medical faculty of the University is unanimously in favor of it, and it seems likely to be put through...
...money to devote to another four year's course, so they try to do all the work in three years. They do not realize that there is plenty of room for well-educated doctors, but no room for poorly-trained ones Nearly all of Boston's doctors are in favor of the plan, and their experience should count for much in considering the question...
There are some things to be said in favor of the institution, but many more to be said against it. Those who wish it to continue urge that it gives vent to a feeling that otherwise would find an outlet in hazing; that it serves to break the ice, to some extent, between the freshmen and the upper classmen; and furthermore, that it is a time honored institution, and that that should be argument enough for its continuance...
That "Bloody Monday" is an institution handed down year after year, and that therefore it should be continued, is no argument in its favor at all. The custom is essentially bad; every influence of it is bad; and the fact that it is bad, whether it be time-honored or not, is reason enough that it be abolished...