Word: favored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early games and neither appears from a comparison of scores to have asserted any marked superiority over the other. The game should be a hard fought contest in which Harvard may be forced to play a stiff up-hill game although the prospects seem slightly in her favor provided she bats as well as she has of late...
...distance runs appear to be slightly in Harvard's favor. Bremer will run the quarter as well as the hurdles. The best Yale man in the quarter is Fisher, who is one of the fastest quarter milers Yale ever had. She has taken him out of the sprints and apparently intends to win this event for once. To do so, however, Fisher will have to beat Bremer and Fish '99. In the half mile Draper 1900 and Bush 1901 are pretty evently matched against Ordway, Yale's best man. Bush is a new man who lacks experience, otherwise he might...
...seven inning game and the Reconcentrados beat Scrub 7-11-44 by the score of 14 to 9. The game between the Cold Hands and the Pearlines was called in the eighth inning on account of darkness with the score 7 to 6 in favor of the Cold Hands. The Kitty Dames forfeited to the Jumbos. On Soldiers Field, the No Names defeated the Undertakers...
...less than was the case at Yale, the difference being 4-10 percent. in '94, 4 9-10 percent. in '95, and 3 per cent. in '96. In regard to the number of men getting their degrees in five and six years the statistics are again slightly in favor of Harvard, while the percentages of the men who left college without a degree is in all cases notably larger at Harvard than at Yale...
From themes prescribed in six of the English courses on the subject of physical training the following figures have been obtained. Out of 542 themes 449 were in favor of some course in physical training and 93 opposed. The prevailing opinion of those in favor of a course in physical training was that a course prescribed for Freshmen would be more practicable than an elective course...