Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...division of the population between Catholics and Protestants. President Eliot said he believed it to be possible to reconcile the Roman Catholics to the American public school; but the proposed legislation would have the effect of enlisting the conscientious Catholics, now considerably divided, solidly and powerfully in favor of the parochial system. They would believe the legislature to be directed against themselves and against the rights they hold sacred...
...just this time of the year the different clubs are at work on new music for the spring concert, so the program reminded one of past times, but showed the result of careful work. The quartette of the Glee Club met with especial favor. It is but fair to the retiring leader of the Glee Club to repeat what a man remarked who has heard all the concerts for several years: "It was the best singing the Glee Club ever did." The Pierian played but twice, and received a warm response. The Banjo Club, as usual, made a decided...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- You published in a recent issue a communication in which the writer advocated the abolition of semi-annual examinations and the substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would...
...other hand there are many things to be urged in favor of semiannual examinations. The writer of your communication bases his whole argument on the fact that a change of system would be of benefit to those who "come to college simply to have a good time." Now, I contend that the regulations of college should be shaped so as to benefit not those who come here to loaf, but those who come here to study, if the interests of the two classes of men are at variance...
...great advantages the college offers, is tempted, with the present system of examinations, to loaf. Such a man would oppose hour examinations; but the man who is desirous of making the most of his advantages here (and I think such men are in the majority) ought to favor them...