Word: favorable
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...first eight minutes of the game neither side scored. Harvard then secured a foul but missed the goal. This was followed by a series of long shots by Yale and scoring by both teams. The half ended with the score 28 to 8 in Yale's favor...
Professor Hanus says: "I am in favor of a general plan of uniform entrance examinations, and I should like to see Harvard adopt some such scheme in conjunction with other leading American colleges. If college requirements were more nearly alike, the work of the preparatory schools would be greatly simplified, the instruction would be more concentrated and thorough and the pupils would be far better prepared for the subsequent work of the University. I should strongly deprecate the lowering of the Harvard requirements for admission, but I believe that a set of uniform entrance requirements could be drawn up which...
...committee appointed by the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools will meet on February 1, and will draw up a report on the practicability or impracticability of a system of uniform entrance examinations for the New England colleges. Should the committee favor such a system of examinations as has been adopted in the Middle States, then Harvard, with the rest of the New England colleges, would be called upon to decide whether or not general admission examinations should replace the present individual requirements. Sooner or later, at any rate, Harvard will probably face such a decision, in which...
...recent vote of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, President Eliot was authorized to investigate and report on the advisability of adopting a uniform entrance examination board, similar to that now existing in the Middle States. If the committee decides in favor of this plan, it is also to suggest a method of organization...
...voted to wear caps and gowns after the spring recess, 223 being in favor of the plan and 172 against...