Word: favors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Whites to pitch and catch, with Manning in right field as change pitcher if needed. Up to the fourth inning neither side succeeded in scoring; in the fourth inning, however, the Bostons succeeded in getting in one run, leaving the game one to nothing in their favor. From thence up to the ninth inning there were no more runs made, but in the ninth Leeds and Dow each succeeded in getting in an earned run, making the game one to two in our favor. When the Bostons came in to take their last inning, their first two men, Schafer...
...stupid, it being perfectly evident from the very first inning what the result would be. In the last half of the ninth inning the batting of our Nine was very good. The result of the game formed an auspicious opening of the season, being 11 to 3 in our favor, as follows...
...Herbert Spencer's principles of psychology and with the latest investigations on the functions of the brain, supplies a want that is felt by every student of philosophy; and now that it has been rightly classified, we may confidently expect that this course will occupy a place equal in favor with that of any philosophical elective...
...manner we have mentioned, they cannot expect to subdue the boyish and rowdy element which is so prominent in almost all the smaller colleges. The cane and beaver rushes, the Cornell "stackings," the thousand and one absurdities which make up the amusements of such students, will remain in favor so long as the Faculties encourage them by treating their perpetrators as if they were committing a fault and not an imbecility. When a Cornell student "stacks" a room, or a Union student indulges in a cane rush, to wear a foolscap would be a much more appropriate punishment than...
...heavy-weight wrestling was decided last Saturday, by a contest between Messrs. Kessler, '78, and Simmons, '80, Mr. Wetherbee having withdrawn. There were two bouts, each being decided in favor of Mr. Kessler, who accordingly received the cup. The judges were Messrs. Butler and Leeds, '77, and Thayer...