Word: favored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Oxford-Cambridge boat race will be rowed today. It is thought that the chances are in Oxford's favor...
...voting today is being done by secret ballot. It began at 9 o'clock and continued until 1 p. m., when the polls were closed for one hour. The balloting will stop at 5 o'clock. In the morning a very heavy vote was polled which was overwhelmingly in favor of the adoption of the new rules...
LATER.NEW HAVEN, March 3, 1.15 a. m.- The new athletic rules governing the eligibility of members of the athletic teams were ratified by a general vote of the university. The vote stood 496 in favor of the new rules to 15 against them. The rules will go into effect at once, and a number of men now on athletic teams will be disqualified...
...principal objections to the change that have been made by the remonstrants are that a certificate attached to a degree is a confession of inferiority, and that the Annex because of insufficient endowment may be abandoned by the University. Yet the present endowment of the Annex conpares favorably with that of other institutions, and, as to the good faith of the University, the liberal protection that the Annex has received in the past, and the unanimous spirit in favor of the change that is expressed by the overseers of the University, ought to be sufficient earnest of fair treatment...
...Elizabeth Agassiz, and Professors Norton, Goodwin, Goodale and Byerly, spoke in favor of the petition. They agreed in saying that there can be no valid objection on the ground of insufficient endowment, and that the honor of the college is pledged to the support of the Annex...