Word: favored
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saturday morning the University Nine played a closely contested game with a picked nine; the latter having the advantage of Ernst's and Tyng's valuable services. The game resulted in favor of the picked nine by a score of 7 vs. 4 in six innings. Base-hits, Picked Nine, 6, University 4. Hooper and Dwyer played respectively pitcher and catcher for the University...
...when Nicholas comes in and takes me immediately into his favor because I can say "parlate Italiano?" I am very proud to receive his smile. And when the black eyes spy a pair of sabots on the mantle, and I am asked "how much I take," it is not very hard to part with them. Or when our minstrel delicately intimates that he would like to find an old coat lying around somewhere, the article needed is generally found, even if it requires a little missionary work among one's neighbors...
...OEstrus comes out strongly in favor of women's rights, and its "editorial affairs" are to be managed, in part, by young ladies of the University of California. After co-education comes co-editing. The gentler sex is, according to the OEstrus, "an acknowledged superior element in the college." The OEstrus is apparently conscious of its own defects, as the following observation shows : "This acquisition will tend to add dignity and tone to the paper, and prevent it from possibly falling into that low strain which we have seen in some issues of our contemporaries...
...here, which is at present so far below what it can and ought to be, we suggest to the Athletic Association the plan of instituting Challenge Cups. The offer of two really handsome and valuable cups, one for walking and one for running, would, we think, meet with immediate favor. Any one winning the cup should have his name engraved upon it, each time he won, and, after being won three successive times by the same man, it should become his private property. The distance in each case should be such as to equalize, as much as possible, the chances...
After this several speeches were made on both sides of the question, but generally in favor of rowing the race...