Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be rowed to-day, April 3. There will be six old men in the Oxford boat, while only two of the Cambridge eight rowed last year. The average weight of each crew is about 172 lbs. The crews are very equally matched, but with the advantage slightly in favor of Oxford...
...interest for college readers - or any other readers, for that matter - but the great effort of Boston's leading art journal, the Globe, yesterday morning, was received with all due appreciation by the undergraduates of Harvard, and must have created quite a sensation in the outside world. Perhaps the favor with which this venture was received may be shown best by the fact that over 500 extra copies of the "Globe" were sold yesterday in Cambridge. But really, this article opens up quite a field for enterprise. It could easily be "worked" in the cases of all classes of society...
...Ushers will confer a very great favor by being in their positions promptly at 12.45, or even earlier, if possible. Contestants must have their dress approved between 10 and 11. They are also warned that no one will be allowed to compete without a certificate from the Director of the gymnasium...
...coming from the Irish side of the house, and it is only fair to state that they spoke in a way that did their cause credit. The negative confined their remarks to legal quibbles on the separation of the grand British Empire, and offered some able legal arguments in favor of their theories; but they rather stultified themselves by urging that the Irish were now unfit, would perhaps always be unfit to govern themselves; that they did not wish to govern themselves; that they wanted independence and to smash the British empire; that they did not want to be separated...
Ashe, '87, and Mitchell, '89, were the contestants in the first bout of the light weight sparring. The first round was scientific, with the advantage slightly in favor of Mitchell. In the second round Ashe struck Mitchell a terrible blow on the jaw which caused him to lose confidence as well as strength. The third round was well contested, Mitchell doing some very good work but he was uncertain in his movements, owing to his punishment in the second round. The bout was awarded to Ashe...