Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christian Association." The change in name and in constitution has been made, we understand, after much consideration and debate. It is not for us to dispute the desirability of the change, for this was clearly enough proven by the fact of the almost unanimous vote cast in favor. Harvard has only followed the examples set by Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, and indeed by almost all the New England colleges. To the society, as newly constituted, because it represents a by no means insignificant element of Harvard life and opinion, we cannot do better than extend our good wishes, This...
...SENIORS. Pach Bros'. interior photographer will be here Thursday, April 28, for the last time this year. Orders may be given to me or at the studio. There are only a few of the class left to be taken. It would be a great favor if they would sit some time in the next week so the orders may be filled. Appointments for out door groups may be made now. Will the secretaries of the several societies and organizations please attend...
About 400 spectators witnessed a poorly played game yesterday afternoon between Harvard and Tufts. Harvard came very near being defeated, the score at the end of the eighth inning standing 6 to 5 in favor of Tufts. The ninth was played almost in darkness. By three errors, a single and a home run, Harvard scored four runs. The game was dull and uninteresting; both teams fielded wretchedly and batted worse. Harvard's errors were very costly and the game was won entirely by luck...
...committee appointed by the Overseers to discuss the chapel petitions have written to the Christian Brethren for their opinion as a body on the subject. The society voted in favor of the non-compulsory worship...
...granting that the two systems are equally good so far as quality goes, the spirit of instruction must be taken into account. The discipline and instruction of sectarian schools is likely to develop men prejudiced in favor of particular church dogmas and creeds. Said a seminarian, who had always attended the schools of his church, in discussing evolution with a gentleman who seemed open to the doctrine, "What, do you want it proved true?" Too often the life of the teachers in parochial schools is so wrapped up in their profession that the education they impart fits...