Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate promoters of the scheme, that the undergraduates did not heartily wish such a club. We are at a loss to explain this feeling, and it seems to us that beyond doubt the great majority of the undergraduates, who have thought about the matter at all, are heartily in favor of it. If there is any hesitation it has come from a fear that the plan would not be pushed, rather than a lack of confidence in the merits of the plan itself...
...opportunity of rendering valuable assistance to the general cause. It will be as easy to connect the name of Phillips Brooks with a University Club as with the small house proposed, and we venture to think that the large aims of the general club would have met with special favor in his eyes...
...meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools held Saturday morning in Boston, President Eliot spoke in favor of a three years' college course, and said he believed the hope of America depends upon this reduction. At the election of officers held after the meeting, President Eliot was elected as vice-president of the association...
...game between West Point and Wesleyan was very hotly contested and showed the two teams to be pretty evenly matched, the score being 12 to 9 in favor of West Point. The match was a very rough one and was fought...
...number of the CRIMSON which was issued Thursday, Sept. 30, contained a statement of the recent agitation in the city of Cambridge in favor of a change in the present arrangement of post offices. As was then explained, an effort has been made this fall so to change the present post offices that business men in the lower part of the city can have their mail addressed to Cambridge instead of to Cambridgeport. The first plan proposed, that of changing the name of this district to Old Cambridge in order that the down town district might obtain the much coveted...