Word: favors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College Athletic sports the 100-yard race was won in 11 seconds; the 500-yard race in 1 minute 13 1/4 seconds; and the mile-walk in 10 minutes 1 second. President Potter took great interest in the sports. He provided and presented the prizes, and spoke warmly in favor of Athletics...
...final concert of the season was given by the Pierian Sodality and the Glee Club, last evening, at Lyceum Hall, and was received with the usual favor by their many friends, who could not fail to appreciate and enjoy the carefully selected and well-rendered pieces which the programme offered...
...first is with regard to the style of speaking. The judges are selected annually, and the award of prizes depends entirely upon the taste of the gentlemen who are called upon to serve. Now if it happens that the committee is made up of a majority who favor a forensic or parliamentary style of speaking, and do not approve of an exhibition of dramatic art, then the Websters and Burkes get all the prizes, while the disciples of Shakespeare or the other poets come away empty-handed. If, on the other hand, the majority are gentlemen who dislike " spouting...
Knemidology may to-day be brought to bear upon female equestrians. If the bloomer costume be introduced, the new science will be as applicable to women as to men; and this is to me a strong argument in favor of the proposed innovations in female attire. But, even supposing the fashions to remain as they are, I hold that I can support my pretensions to reading character in general fully as well as the average phrenologist; and, as neither his science nor mine satisfactorily solve the problems which may arise concerning women, I should venture to suggest that they might...
...ground that very often all the boats of one club are in use, while many of the boats of the others are on the rests, so that men are obliged to go away without a row, though there are several boats in the house. Some persons are therefore in favor of having only one large club for the whole College, for they prefer an arrangement which will give each man the best opportunities for rowing to one which will train oarsmen at the expense of other members. These men are sometimes disposed to prefer their own convenience to the interests...