Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...puts it, that wish to do away with compulsory prayers. On the contrary, it is the desire of those who have the interests of the college most at heart, that, for the honor of Harvard, the present system be given up. If the only arguments to be adduced in favor of compulsory prayers were such as the pictorial ones the writer gives, he by them would have been abolished two centuries...
...valuable game is proved in many ways. Not long ago, the man most qualified to know, the director of the gymnasium, said he considered that it furnished the best exercise of any game. And what is the verdict of the youth of the country? Decidedly in its favor. The Rugby game was introduced lese than ten years ago, and for some years it was in a state of infancy while the larger colleges learned it. Now what do we find? No sooner is the game well known than it becomes immensely popular, and every college throughout the Eastern states...
This enthusiasm to which a man is stirred, and which prompts him to sacrifice himself for the success of his side, is one of the chief arguments in favor of foot ball. Any man who has learned to display determination on the foot ball field, is very certain to show it in any work of life be may afterward enter. The Duke of Wellington declared that all his great victories had been decided long before on the foot ball fields of England. Moreover, a few bruises cannot offset the advantages of that training whose great aim is to develope coolness...
...cramp, both sides formed tug-of-war teams, by holding each other's waists, and would have pulled the poor fellow apart in their endeavors to cure him, had not the injured member recovered just in time to prevent such a catastrophe. fickle fortune again favored the blues toward the end of the game, so that at the finish the score stood 14 to 8 in their favor. The tackling and dropping on the ball was so fine, that the freshman eleven, which had come out to practice, stood interested spectators, getting points in preparation for their game with Yale...
Adelbert College, in Cleveland, has declared in favor of co-education. The action has caused a revolt, and eighty students have refused to attend recitations...