Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hockey game with Brown will be played this afternoon at 4 p. m. on Franklin Field. The Brown team is an unusually strong one, and the chances are in favor of a close and interesting match. The Harvard line-up will be as follows: Forwards, Beardsell, Natteson, Goodridge and Hardy or Holt; coverpoint, Clement or Hoxie; goal, Russell. Challenges have been received for games against Pennsylvania and Columbia, but nothing definite has yet been arranged...
...time when the discussion took place last fall concerning the most effective method of training inexperienced debaters, which resulted in the formation of the Sophomore Debating Club, another change was proposed, which, though not carried out, was nevertheless received with some degree of favor. This step was the combination of the Forum and the Union into a single club. This change we would again propose in the hope that it will receive more thorough consideration...
There are of course certain advantages connected with the two-club system which should not be underestimated. The chief of these is the stimulus of club rivalry. In practice, however, the benefit mentioned has hardly justified the hopes of those who favor the existence of two clubs. Rivalry has, it is true, sprung up, but few who have been familiar with the history of the clubs feel that it has been a rivalry of a healthy nature. Its fruit has been, to a large extent, lack of co operation...
...chief argument in favor of the change has been that it will broaden the influence of the University, and will tend to unite the departments; the argument on the other side has been that the graduates of the schools either owe allegiance to other colleges or have not had the advantages of college training...
...Saturday morning President Eliot and other speakers addressed a meeting in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston, in favor of the series of University Lectures proposed by the Twentieth Century Club of Boston. The object of the course is to give to teachers and others in professional life near Boston the privileges of instruction such as is given in summer by the Harvard Summer School. The first course for this season will be given by Professor Royce of Harvard on "The Social Factors in the Development of Individual Minds," and will be held in Jacob Sleeper Hall at 9 o'clock beginning...