Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which one or two elements of the class could overreach the others and secure for a part the privilege of choosing representatives for the whole. Now, however, the societies, which, as already organized bodies, have hitherto found it very easy and profitable to form coalitions, have voted in favor of a bona fide open election, - to throw open all the offices without any distinction to the whole class, - and we sincerely hope that the result will be seen in a wise choice of the best man for each place. Of course, this result will not be reached unless...
...free from chance of interruption. Considered as it is at present, it would require years of use to make "sporting the oak" a custom here, but were it considered and accepted in the same light as it is in English Universities, we think it would soon gain ground and favor. There would then be but little difficulty in establishing a custom of which many always, and all at times, have felt the need...
...more favor, if you please...
...require one state, languages another. If we could, in childhood, so act on the mind as to fix it permanently in any condition, We could produce in the child a preference for any study; if, in later years, we had the power of influencing the mind so as to favor the state in which it had become settled, we could greatly increase its power in its favorite study. From these considerations comes my theory, - a theory which I state as follows: It is possible, by feeding a man on certain kinds of food only, to increase to any extent...
...present Senior Class has been so generally united throughout the three years past, that it starts at once towards open elections with a great advantage in its favor. And further, no society has men so pre-eminently qualified to fill such leading offices as those of Orator and Poet, that they might not go about as well to either society or to the non-society element. In every way the Class of '76 is eminently fitted to inaugurate the system of open elections, and so to throw off that partiality of choice that hitherto has, in some measure, detracted from...