Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...either to abolish the game altogether, or to stop it one year and then let it go on. There would be a great loss to the athletic interests which even the Faculty ought to recognize. The opinion is general, and probably not unfounded, that many members of the Faculty favor "giving back" the game in a year or two, thinking that the punishment will ensure thorough-going reforms...
...made one rather inexcusable error, but otherwise played a good game. Dean at second played steadily, but needs to be a little quicker. Hayes and Stevenson covered first without an error. It is a close race for this position between the two, with the advantage slightly in Hayes's favor, as he is the stronger at the bat. Paine and Highlands pitched an easy game, but they held the visitors down to seven hits. Altogether, Harvard found no difficulty in hitting Sedgwick, and batted out seventeen hits with a total of twenty...
...importance attaching to it he is bound to underestimate if he does not, as is too often the case, overlook it entirely. The result is lamentable. At his most susceptible age, the age at which he is most imitative, all the influences of example seem to be in favor of neglect of mental development for physical. The boy naturally hopes for a successful college career, and the only road to success seems to him to be through athletic achievement. To this, therefore, he devotes all his energies, to the great detriment of his mental training...
...sign the blue book at Leavitt's as soon as possible. It will greatly facilitate the arrangements of the committee if they can know within the next three days approximately the number of men who intend to be present, and all men who sign immediately will confer a great favor upon the committee...
...system of administration at Oxford is preferable to that at Harvard." The principal disputants were: Affirmative, E. D. Curtis, W. M. Gardner, and G. A. Giles; negative, J. G. Gulick, E. B. Barton, and C. E. Brown. The decision of the judges and of the house was in favor of the affirmative. Mr. H. A. Bull '95 criticised the debate and the speakers...