Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University basketball team will play Tufts in Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 o'clock this evening. Since the Princeton game last Saturday, the University team has been coached especially in team place and has shown considerable improvement. In this respect, the chances of winning tonight favor the Tufts five, however, for they have played together for the past two years and are a thoroughly experienced team. They have already this season twice defeated the strong Brown team. Last year the University team won a fast game...
...University team led throughout the first half, which ended with the score 6 to 3 in its favor. Princeton then made a change in its line-up. This appeared to put more life into the team, and about the middle of the second half the score was tied at 11-11. Currie then made two goals from fouls. A few minutes later, however, Clark tied the score with a goal from the middle of the floor. But the University team again took the lead by a goal by Browne and a foul by Currie which ended the scoring...
There is undoubtedly something to be said in favor of smaller schedules. Several of the western universities have already made the attempt, but against eastern teams Michigan and Chicago, both playing small schedules, met little success. We do not wish to uphold this, however, as a criterion of their season as a whole...
Although the teams were very evenly matched the shooting of the Holy Cross men was, on the whole, more accurate. The University team outplayed its opponents in the first half and the score at the end of this period was 10 to 6 in Harvard's favor. Currie excelled during this half and scored two goals on long shots. In the second half the Holy Cross team braced and scored 14 to Harvard's 6 points. They played a harder, faster game during this period and their basket was not often in danger...
President Eliot and Professor J. H. Beale '82 of the Law School, will hold an informal discussion on the subject of "City Government by Commission," at the Colonial Club, this evening at 8 o'clock. President Eliot will argue in favor of municipal government by commission, and Professor Beale will oppose that theory. Professor Beale is now a member of the Cambridge board of aldermen. The discussion will be open only to members of the club and their guests...