Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With all this in its favor, the advisability of a change would seem to be very uncertain. Our annual race should - like that of Oxford and Cambridge - become a fixture, over a fixed course; as few things will tend more to decrease the number of spectators and the interest of the world at large in our races, than to be continually changing our courses...
...call them "old fellow!" That has been an open sesame to popularity for generations past. Indulge sparingly in study, but be sure and stand well. Never ask questions or hold up your hand in recitations, as any such actions savor too strongly of primary schools to meet with favor here...
...Executive Committee also decided to make arrangements for a Field Meeting with Yale, to be held some time in May. This plan was discussed last year, and met with favor among those who gave it their attention. The students of both Harvard and Yale take much more interest in contests between their colleges than in those with other colleges, and it is to be hoped that our Athletic Association may succeed in inaugurating the first Annual Meeting this year. The meetings would be held one year at Cambridge and the next at New Haven, thus giving members of both...
MEPH. I ask thee to use, in return for this favor...
...does not the Latin department fall into error in considering apathy, in any direction, justifiable. Is there not danger of its awakening some day to the discomforting realization that, in popular favor, at least, Greek has outstripped it, and that, where it formerly held its head proudly in the first place, it must now be contented with a sorry second...