Word: favored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those of us who live away from Boston, it is a pleasant thing to be able to pass Easter and the following week at home. Besides it makes a very fair break in the time between January 1st and July 1st. The proposal seems to meet with great favor among many of the undergraduates, and there seems to be no strong reason why it should not be adopted by the faculty. Easter-tide is almost as much of a holiday all over the country as Christmas. Schools and colleges close their doors and grant a vacation for several days...
...ground of English literature in his four years' course. The writer further complains that a boy who comes to Harvard "saturated" with knowledge of American authors is naturally surprised at failing in an examination because he happens to know nothing about Scott. This seems to us an argument in favor of, not against, our present system. For, if the boy is so "saturated" in American literature, is it not just as well that he should be expected to find out something in regard to the writers and masterpieces of England? There is a fallacy in the writer's argument here...
...idea of aiding men to go to college in this way is a new one, and will probably result in changing the minds of many people in favor of college education. Two hundred dollars a year will go a long way toward paying a man's college expenses, and many poor young men who may not have thought of a college education as a possible thing for them will be ready to take the responsibility of paying what expenses they incur above the two hundred dollars...
...much the production of great athletes as the promotion of general physical culture among all its members. The Berkeley Association is one of the many clubs that have in the last few years sprung into life in New York and other places, and illustrates, like them, the growing favor of Americans for general athletic culture...
...lower classes. In addition the faculty offer a whole holiday if the freshmen will accede to their request. As a general thing the sentiment of the University is against giving up any of the peculiar Yale customs, but in this case the upper-classmen are all in favor of the action of the faculty...