Word: favored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were ready to make all the assumptions just mentioned in favor of Yale and thus to make all honorable amends for any possible injustice to Yale caused by our cancellation of the Princeton-Harvard provisional arrangement, we felt that it was only fair to couple with the settlement of the difficulty of this year an arrangement by which diplomatic negotiations with all their attendant evils might be reduced to a minimum hereafter. We pointed out that such an arrangement was only a formal recognition of the existing custom by which Yale and Harvard meet in all the sports every year...
...left fielder's head and before the ball could be fielded in from Holmes made the circuit of the bases. Frothingham got a base on balls, stole second and came home on Cotter's second wild throw to second. Alward flied out to catcher. Score 3 to 0 in favor of Harvard...
...been settled. If it has, it would be interesting for the seniors to know the result; if not, it is evidently high time that it was. I bring this up because, if I am not mistaken, the majority of those present at our last class meeting seemed in favor of the change...
...respected for just what he is, and no money curries favor here. Indeed, the boys who have moderate means make up the college standard. You remember that you spoke of Phillips Brooks, D. D., when I left you last summer. He said for a young man of character it was just the place, but if a boy were weak, he would then advise him to go elsewhere...
Although a lecture on this subject has been delineated at Harvard twenty-five times, the opinion of many of the faculty is in favor of discontinuing such a manifestly sectarian lecture, and on this account they will send in a petition to the President and Fellows to have it stopped. The matter is now under discussion and it will be three or four days before it is finally settled...