Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter has been received by the executive committee of the International Copyright Association reporting that the House of Rpresentatives has been well canvassed, and that there appears to be a good majority in favor of passing the international copyright bill. Every Massachusetts member is reported for the bill, which will undoubtedly be passed if it is possible to bring the measure to a vote...
...handicap. Only one record was broken. George R. Gray, N. Y. A. C., threw the 24b.- shot 33 ft., 3 in., breaking the record by 8 inches. The lacrosse game between the Staten Island Athletic Club and Rutgers College consisted of two halves of fifteen minutes, and resulted in favor of the Athletic Club. Score 3 to 0. In the foot-ball game the University of Pennsylvania defeated Rutgers College, by a score...
...petition, about one hundred remain unanswered. From the answers received, however, it is very easy to see the drift of college opinion, for only half-a-dozen men have expressed themselves as opposed to lighting the library. Every professor and instructor from whom we have heard is in favor of the petition, and two professors have had the kindness to explain their views on the subject more fully by letter. A mistake was made in addressing the envelopes so that a number of law school men received postal cards instead of the instructors in college. We should deem...
...large number of answers have been received to the petition for electric lights in the library. With but few exceptions, these answers have been in favor of the petition, and the negative answers are, we think, the result of two mistaken ideas: either that the introduction of electric lights would render the danger of fire possible, or that their introduction would necessarily do away with the present reserve book system...
...composed of monarchists and imperialists, see a possibility of coming into power without revolution, and this turns them away from conspiracy against the government. If they should come into power they will not divest themselves of the immense patronage of the government and the ability to govern themselves in favor of a pretender to the crown, who would cast them aside as soon as he dared. The trouble with the republican party is that it is too unwieldy. It has a majority of over two hundred, and it is manifestly impossible to terrify the individuals who vote against the government...