Word: favored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Council has also voted to request the Corporation to select a costume of caps and gowns to be the authorized costume on Academic occasions of holders of Harvard degrees. This vote was in consequence of a petition from various Harvard graduates who are in favor of a prescribed uniform...
...University Council has expressed itself in favor of extending the suffrage for the election of overseers to graduates of all departments of the University. At present only those who hold A. B.'s of the College are electors...
...years ago. Three means were then employed: personal conversation and correspondence with a large number of college men; the assignment of the University Club as a topic for themes in English course, and a blue-book canvass. The result was an overwhelming expression of thoughtful student opinion in favor of the project. Nearly twelve hundred signed the blue-books at once. There was some thoughtful opinion against the plan, based chiefly on the question of practicability, but without ignoring the very small minority, the committee of graduates who had the matter in hand were able to make a strong though...
...West Point last Saturday by the score of 10 to 0, in a game which, owing to the extreme heat, taxed the endurance of both teams to the utmost. Doucette and Haughton for Harvard and Munton for West Point, were compelled through exhaustion to retire from the field, in favor of Burden, Warren and Humphrey...
...very glad to publish today's communication on the subject of the University Club, and especially commend that portion of it which urges a vigorous expression of undergraduate opinion. We repeat our belief that undergraduate sentiment once aroused from its too habitual lethargy, will emphatically favor the plan. As the writer of the communication says, once that opinion is forcibly expressed, the graduates will be quick to take the mafter...