Word: favors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the officers of the four boat-clubs and the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C., held on Monday evening, resolutions were passed which cannot fail to be of interest to all who are concerned with boating at Harvard, whether they are in favor of class or club races...
THOSE knowing the addresses of men who have left the class of '78 will confer a great favor on the Class Committee by sending them their addreses...
...view of the fact that a number of our undergraduates are strongly in favor of introducing at Harvard a system of scholarships to be awarded without regard to the pecuniary need of the students, it is important to know President Eliot's opinion on this matter...
...however, an American inventor, recognizing the utility and simplicity of a direct crank action, operated by pedal power, on a revolving axle, turned his attention to the development of the principle involved, and the result was the improved "hobby horse" which in 1869 jumped so suddenly into favor both in this country and in Europe, under the cognomen of the "velocipede." Clumsy as this machine was in make, it is certain that, if the "hobby horse" of 1818 can be termed the ancestor, this of 1869 is entitled to be called the father, of the perfected bicycle...
THERE is some talk among those who have lately been refused entrance to the Glee Club of starting a new musical society called "The Sore-headed Nightingales." If it will occasionally allow itself to be heard, the S. H. N. will soon replace in popular favor the H. G. C., which has confined its melody thus far to a privileged few only...