Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cricket club began the season yesterday by playing a practice game with the Shamrock club of East Cambridge. Shamrock won after a most exciting finish by the narrow margin of three runs, the score being 70 to 73 in their favor. Ellis's bowling was sadly missed. There were four or five new men most of whom had played little or no cricket in the eleven that did duty for the college yesterday. For Harvard Brown did the best work at the bat, though the other men as a rule kept up their wickets pretty well. The fielding...
...shot against the Lexington Gun club at Lexington Saturday afternoon. Although Harvard's team was defeated, the defeat was not one which should discourage either the team or college as the scores mades by Lexington were remarkably good, and the conditions under which the match was shot were in favor of the home team, being new to the Harvard men. Each team was made up of five men each man shooting at twenty-five birds with the following results...
...this organization. It would have been impossible, perhaps, to select two works more eminently fitted to display the technical abilities of the players than these quartets of Beethoven and Brahms yet each selection was rendered in a manner highly satisfactory to the audience. The movements which found most favor with the audience were the Scherzo from the Beethoven quartet and the andante and Menuetto from the Brahms quartei. The andante was especially well liked as its broad nature gave the men ample chance for deep feeling and emotion. The applause which greeted Mr. Kneisel...
...that the first issue of treasury notes was made to meet the expenses of the coming war with England. They were mostly in sums of $100. and were never intended for general circulation; but this action of the treasury established a deplorable precedent, which those in favor of paper money in later years did not fail to make use of. Up to 1861, all attempts to make paper money a legal tender were indignantly rejected by congress. But the breaking out of the Civil War made such action both just and necessary...
...regret very much that the meeting was conducted as it was with the idea that discussion by the college was not desirable. Undoubtedly college opinion is not in favor of any such action at present...