Word: favors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems to us that the custom of wearing base-ball suits into Memorial Hall, though rapidly growing in favor among certain students, is not one that recommends itself for universal adoption. We admit that we have never belonged to a base-ball nine, that we are prejudiced, and that we perhaps even deserve to be called squeamish, but still we cannot help objecting to the practice. From an aesthetic point of view blouses of gray trimmed with crimson are not beautiful, and we have been told that one of the advantages gained by boarding in Memorial Hall is the refinement...
...parentage to a wish! The thought was, that in the four games played by our Nine with the Manchesters, the record stands eleven to eleven. Unfortunately for him, according to his own figures, which by the way are incorrect, the sum total amounts to twelve to eleven in their favor. But in addition to his careless mathematical error, he seems to have forgotten entirely that the score of the second game was ten to four in our favor; and that the sum total as corrected stands fourteen to eleven, in favor of our Nine, who have made...
...better to take them both, even with the inconvenience about recitation, than to give up either entirely? There are but few electives in which a diligent student will find an occasional absence from recitation an irreparable loss, and these few he naturally will favor in case of a conflict. In short, this rule seems to us another instance of the spirit which, when granting privileges, so hedges them about with restrictions that practically they cease to be privileges...
...appearance of the schedule of Annual Examinations is always awaited with interest, and is received with regret or delight as it happens to mar or favor the plans of the undergraduate. Last year the order of the June examinations was not made public until the 18th of May, and constant complaints, the natural outgrowth of this delay, appeared in the College papers. This year the Registrar has anticipated any similar complaints, and has printed the provisional schedule four weeks before the Annuals begin. The generous regard for our comfort and convenience, which has thus been shown by the members...
...recently arrived, have but lately become acquainted with such a representative; and he has appeared to me to be an evil outgrowth of the marking system, - in fact, a strong argument in favor of abolishing that system...