Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meetings, namely, that such vigorous contests as are yearly witnessed, are not suitable exhibitions for a Ladies' Day. It is an almost inevitable conclusion that some blood must be spilled if the sparring is at all hard, and "posing matches" do not seem to be held in high favor among the undergraduates here at Harvard, if one may judge from the current conversations at the meeting. The most sensible plan seems to be to put all the sparring on the first day when no ladies are present, and when it would not be as much out of place...
...intends to draw for room No. 11 Matthews, will confer a great favor by immediately calling upon or notifying the present occupants...
...number of these courses in the elective pamphlet for the ensuing year. A still greater improvement, however, might be made by extending this system to half courses of one hour a week, which at present last throughout the year, as all the arguments which can be cited in favor of the three hour half courses, would apply with still greater force to two-hour half courses. The interest must necessarily flag in one hour courses, in which the students and instructor meet but once a week. By doubling up such courses and having them occupy but half a year with...
...tennis, or to any outdoor exercise of those men who did not play on any of the teams, while it may be necessary so long as the teams hold their present position, is yet much to be regretted. There is, perhaps, no sport in college in such general favor as tennis, and to have the great number of those who wish to engage in it confined to so few courts that a majority of them will be shut out, is a lamentable state of affairs. Probably the best possible way to raise the average standard of athletics here...
...would naturally be supposed that those members of our faculty, if there be any, who favor the substitution of modern languages for Greek in the scheme of education would see to it that the instruction at Harvard in their favorite subjects be of the highest quality. We do not wish to criticize the quality of the instruction or the efficiency of the instructors in the German department, but we should like to call attention to the vacancy that still exists at its head. This department has been especially unfortunate in this respect. The professorship, if we mistake not, was established...