Word: favored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finish. There will be a run over the course today and Thursday in order that the competitors may become familiar with the turns. The joint committee have considered the question of a perpetual challenge cup, and have found it to be impracticable at present. Both clubs are in favor of some such arrangement, but nothing more will be done about it until next fall...
...make up of the nine: p., Churchill; c., Child; 1b, Howell; 2b, Cady; 3b, Wrenn; s. s., Thorndyke; l. f., Cummins; c. f., Rankin; r. f., Allen. Another game was played on Friday with the Cambrige High and Latin School nine, the score being 18 to 16, in favor of the Cambridge men. The freshmen played a much inferior game to that of the previous day, and the battery again was the weak point. The only changes in the nine were in the battery, Hollis catching in place of Child, and at short-stop, Spaulding taking Thorndyke's place...
...Oxford-Cambridge race on next Saturday, Cambridge puts in her boat the same victorious crew of last year and the chances are strongly in favor of a victory for Cambridge...
During the past winter the CRIMSON went to the expense and trouble of getting up a petition to the Corporation asking for electric lights in the library. Over a thousand names of students and instructors were sent in as in favor of the petition. The petition was given to the Corporation with the result that the treasurer was directed to investigate thoroughly the advisability of putting in the lights with especial consideration of the expense...
...large audience in Elliot Hall. The programme was, in the main, made up of selections used on the western trip. Of the two organizations, the Banjo Club, was evidently the favorite, and easily carried off the honors of the evening. The rendering of the "Darkey's Dream," finding especial favor with the audience The Glee Club was not quite up to its usual high standard and showed signs of lack of rehearsing. It is to be hoped that the want of interest which evidently prevails to a certain extent among some of the members in the organization, will be made...