Word: favors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...There we find about thirty optional courses which can properly be called literary. Comparing the number of men who have taken these electives with the number who have elected Mathematics, Philosophy, History, Physics, Chemistry, Natural History, and Music, we find an excess of ten per cent in favor of purely literary studies...
...Sodality kept up to their usual standard, and showed a good deal of practice and care in the execution of their pieces. Fesca's trio for piano, violin, and violoncello was well rendered by Messrs. Dean, Towne, and Finck, respectively. Rossini's Fantaisie pour Clarionet was also received with favor...
...know what Harvard is, considered as an educational institution, we find a difference of opinion. "Harvard is a University," says the Freshman, who has been here just long enough to have learned that the modesty which pauses to knock at the Secretary's door is not regarded with favor by that officer. Longer experience, however, often tends to disturb this conviction, and in the mind of an upper-classman it becomes softened into the statement, "Harvard is the best College in America"; which is agreeable, but open to the charge of vagueness. Negatively, I think, it may be taken...
...Mudge's blows were delivered with considerable force, but the majority of them were skilfully parried by Mr. Denton, who finally succeeded in getting his opponent's head in chancery. At the end of two bouts, of five minutes each, the contest was decided in favor of Mr. Denton. It was the intention of the managers that the two victors, Messrs. Riggs and Denton, should conclude the meeting by sparring together, but as it was already quite late, the match was postponed until the next meeting. More interest was taken in the sparring matches than in any of the other...
...review of the advised changes is given elsewhere, and states the main points succinctly; and boating-men will feel much interest in the theory, which is that of a graduate of some years' standing, who has studied carefully the English system in comparison with our own, and decides in favor of "turn-about races...