Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rowing, which were gathered by the Yale News; and appeared in an article in that publication which dealt with the subject, are interesting and authoritative. Of the letters received, the number of those which were against the shortening of the race was slightly larger than that of those in favor of the proposed shortening of the distance...
...other. In regard to changing the distance to three miles I do not believe it would lessen the strain on the men as the pace would naturally be more severe over the shorter course and the results would be about the same. I feel very strongly in favor of retaining the four-mile race, as a crew to win must know how to row and cannot rely entirely on slugging. It is the very fact that it is a long grind which makes it so worth while and so appealing to those who delight in a test of endurance...
Captain Denegre, of the Yale crew was also against the shortening of the race. He made the following statement: "In regard to the four-mile race I am in favor of it because I consider it a better test of skill in rowing and coaching, and as a better test of endurance and general ship. In the consideration of this question I think we should place some value in past tradition and in the fact that four miles has been the established distance. The three-mile race is an untried thing. My opinion is that it would develop into more...
...goals to 2 in a game at Milton yesterday. The University representatives forced the playing most of the time keeping the puck in their opponent's territory during a large part of the game. At the end of the first half the score stood 2 to 1 in favor of the second team, but in the early part of the second period Milton succeeded in scoring, making it a tie. The second team rallied, however, and soon secured a lead, following it with two more goals before the whistle blew...
...physical exercise. The hero in school or college life today is the captain of the eleven, the nine, the crew. Sometimes it happens that the athlete is a scholar, too--in that case, the kingdoms of the academic world are under his feet, and he basks in the sunny favor of faculty circles and undergraduate esteem as well. The young student is hardly to be blamed if he yields to the human weakness of preferring the bays and the plaudits of the hippodrome to the fruits of pale, cloistered erudition. Perhaps his name on the side of a silver bowl...