Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Morgan by Free Masons in Western New York. furnished the society material for a debate which showed that the feeling among the members was against the Masons. Two debates on subjects relating to the tariff show that a large majority of the members of the society were in favor of Protection. Professor Bowen says that much interest was manifested in questions relating to Phrenology, then a new science, and such questions were frequently discussed. A debate on the question "Would it be advantageous to have all the studies in college voluntary" was decided in the affirmative...
...Kimball's error. Jones got his first on missed three strikes and a muff by Kimball, reached third on a passed, ball, and came home on a wild pitch. Edgerly struck out, and Winslow fouled out, thus ending the inning, with the score 10 to 1 in Harvard's favor...
...must be very easily guessed, that the writer of these editorials attempts at sarcasm and wonderful successes at contemplibleness, is at once the controller of the Lampoon editorial columns, and one of the aspiring editors of the proposed Literary Magazine. I am, it is true, strongly in favor of the new magazine; but, when one of its editors stoops so low as to take a most unfair advantage, I have to despise him, and at the same time express an opinion of his conduct, which, I believe, must be shared by all fair-minded, nay, by all truly honorable...
...demands for admission to our colleges cover in regard to classical requirements as much, possibly, as our fathers had, and more than our grandfathers had, when they graduated from college. The writer cites the great growth of Harvard since the adoption of the elective system as an argument in favor of its general adoption among the other leading colleges of the country. Mr. Curtis then unfolds a plan by which the highest aims in education can be attained. He says that the high schools should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations ago while...
...very successful joint debate was recently held at Columbia by the three liteary societies, the Philolexian, the Peithologian, and the Barnard. The merits of the debate were decided in favor of the Peithologian...