Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...arguments in favor of wearing the outfit far outweigh the objections to doing so. There are new over five hundred and forty men whom the office is willing to rank as Seniors, but very few of the men in the class are acquainted with over one hundred and fifty of these. Let any Senior take the list of voters and count up the men he knows even by sight and he will be surprised at the smallness of his total. This is a state of things which should not exist and which we can easily remedy. If all the Seniors...
...seems to favor Lisidor's suit at first, for Mirobolan is quite willing to have his daughter marry so old a friend. Their plans are upset, however, by the refusal of Feliante, Alcine's mother, to listen to the proposition; and in spite of remonstrances she has her way and no definite agreement is reached. The two old men are somewhat encouraged by the hopeful spirit of Marin, Lisidor's valet...
...clock Harvard entered the field, and a minute later Yale followed. Captain Daly won the loss and chose the north goal, with a light wind in Harvard's favor. Hale kicked off to Daly on Harvard's twenty yard line, Daly returned it by a punt to Sharpe in midfield, and on Sharpe's fumble Hallowell got the ball for Harvard. On the kick-off, however, Coy had been offside and Yale had to kick-off again. Sawin returned this kick-off to Sharpe at Yale's fifty yard line. After three short line gains Sharpe circled right...
...succeding hours. The playing began at 8 o'clock abd at 12 there were two games still unfinished--the match between Rice (H) and Sawin(Y) and that between Arensberg(H) and Adams (Y). These games were adjudicated, the former as a draw and the second in favor of Arensberg, the agreement being to end the match at midnight...
Appleton & Company have recently published a book by Professor Shaler, entitled "The Individual: "A Study of Life and Death." The book is a carefully reasoned discussion of the arguments suggested by modern science in favor of immortality...