Word: favorered
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...persons having in their possession books belonging to the Porcellian Library will confer a great favor by leaving them at No. 61 Thayer...
...will remember, are, in brief, these: that our course of instruction is utterly deficient in two branches, both of the utmost importance in fitting young men to take part in public affairs, - said branches being, 1, the art of composition; 2, oratory. In the course of his argument in favor of these departments of instruction, our complainant exhibits in strong light the high estimation which he puts upon them in contrast to the indifference with which they are regarded by "the powers that...
...efforts to avoid the spread-eagle know-little-and-talk-a-great-deal style of oratory in favor with our average American stump-speaker, we have touched the other extreme, and have laid ourselves open to a kind of censure which such articles as that on "The Repressive Influence of Harvard" may be supposed to represent. When one of our own professors publicly acknowledges that there is more than a grain of truth in the remark of an outsider to the effect that a Harvard graduate, however much he may know, can say but a few sentences on any subject...
THOSE Seniors who mean to take the Magenta next year will do us a favor by giving their names either to Richardson or to one of the editors immediately...
...were surprised, not long since, to learn that Yale proposed to enter at this summer's races a consolidated Freshman crew, both "Academics" and "Scientifics." No notice was given to either Amherst or Harvard Freshmen, the only two other entries; much less did they ask it as a favor. In the latter case, we have no doubt Harvard would have yielded without a murmur, while Amherst would not have been slow to follow. As it is, both Amherst and Harvard have refused to row against Yale's consolidated Freshman crew. That they are justified in so doing by the course...