Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present college postman is a genial fellow, who is rapidly gaining favor by his satisfactory work and obliging manners...
...Henry P. Kidder, Alexander McKenzie, John T. Morse, Jr., Francis G. Peabody, John T. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorefield Storey, Morrill Wyman-11. The final decision of the question rests with the corporation. "Of the seven persons who form the corporation," says the Advertiser, "only two are thought to favor the medical education of women at Harvard." Co-education of any sort with us must now undoubtedly be but a dream for the dim future...
...agree with your correspondent on the subject of the freshman nine, and also have a word of advice to offer. It is about the selection of the umpire. We all know how hard it is to get an unprejudiced umpire. Any man who takes this position is liable to favor one side or the other, even if he is not personally interested. Often a decision of the umpire wins of loses the game. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to the freshman nine that they get an umpire in their Yale games who is above the slightest suspicion...
...examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly : "Under such a system, and with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made to represent a certain understood amount of solid acquirement, which it certainly does...
...organized, would doubtless receive many members. The only objection to it which could be made might be that it would detract, possibly, from the interest in sports longer established. But many men whose time is not occupied in any other form of athletics, might be induced to favor this form, while there need be no necessity of drawing off those who are already engaged. The status of such a club would, probably, have to be something like that of the Bicycle Club. It might organize occasional races and cruises; and the recent improvements made in the sailing canoe might make...