Word: favored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regular fortnightly meeting of the Harvard Union took place last evening. The question for the evening was, "Resolved, that the inter-collegiate contests of Harvard should be with Yale alone." Mr. J. A. Bailey was the first gentleman to dispute in favor of the affirmative. He said the respective merits of Harvard and Yale in field and track athletics were materially obscured by the admission of smaller colleges in the league. The financial aspect of the case was of great importance and could not be ignored. Harvard's share of the gate receipts in New York would be minute compared...
Harvard has been rowing a series of annual eight-oar shell races with Yale since 1876. The record won is a tie-each college having row six races. Prior to the eight-oar contests the record was 17 to 4 in favor of Harvard. Beginning with the annual series, Yale won in 1876 by eight lengths. The following three years Harvard's crew, with Bancroft as stroke and captain in '77 and '78, and with Trimble as captain in '79, won all the races. In 1880, Yale won, and also in 1881 by six seconds. Capt. Hammond...
...annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race takes place on Saturday, March 24. The betting is two to one in favor of Cambridge. Both crews are heavier than the average Harvard and Yale crews of the last few years...
...HOPKINSON, Secretary.LOST, a red covered blank book, with Phil. 2 and J. L. Adler on the outside. The finder will confer a favor on the owner by handing it in at the desk of the library...
...betting is in favor of the Cambridge crew at present; but unless there is a great improvement in their form during the next few days, Oxford will probably be the favorite in the race...