Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON has received a handbook from the Life Saving Society of which the Duke of York is president. The purpose of the society is to promote technical education in life saving and resuscitation of the apparently drowned. Another object is to stimulate public opinion in favor of the general adoption of Swimming and Life Saving as a branch of instruction in schools and colleges...
...must have more than its mere simplicity to recommend it. It is an easy thing to suggest the abolishment of intercollegiate contests and no one can doubt that with the end of them would come the end of their abuses. Intercollegiate athletics have, however, far too much in their favor to be thus summarily abolished. That the Faculty and the Nation feel themselves unequal, as they must, to the task of reforming athletics, is no reason why they should refuse a hearing to those who are more willing and able to undertake...
...association. Syracuse, California, Dartmouth, and University of Iowa were admitted to membership. The executive committee met in the morning and determined the order of business. On their recommendation the question of alliance with the Amateur Athletic Union was brought up. After a committee from the latter had spoken in favor of the alliance, the matter was debated for some time and finally referred to a committee which will submit it to the several colleges for separate action. The following were appointed on the committee: J. Lee, Harvard; C. Sherrill Yale; P. Vredenburgh, Princeton, and H. L. Geyelar, Pennsylvania...
...speaking from the house. It was on the question: "Resolved, That universal male suffrage is undesirable." The principal disputants on the affirmative were: H. R. Bygrave, C. E. Case and W. E. Dorman; on the negative, E. M. Copeland, G. Naumberg and E. A. Waters. The house decided in favor of the affirmative on the merits of the debate as presented...
...suffered last year by being placed in the third row of starters, which proved equal to a handicap of many yards. Pennsylvania's idea of cutting down the time of the meeting is to have the trials of the quarter-mile and bicycle race in the morning, while Yale favors the same scheme with the addition of having the trials in the 100 yards run in the morning. Practically all the colleges favor the plan of narrowing the field contestants down to five in each event in the morning trials. The adoption of any one of the proposals will result...