Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library can be used is extremely limited. The light in the reading-room is too meagre to admit of reading after half-past four o'clock, and often even earlier on cloudy afternoons. This cuts off an hour and a half from the scanty time allowed under the most favorable circumstances. It is not sufficient, however, to have the whole afternoon; a man is more inclined to reading in the evening than earlier in the day, when exercise and recreation call him out of doors. I shall not take more time adding to the arguments in favor of having...
...inconsistency because we state that in refusing the challenge of the Yale freshmen, the class of '90 did not consider the question of the '89 race, and consequently '91 ought not to be influenced, as we said she should, by the outcome of last year's contest. In favor of this view we hear that the Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with the matter...
...went to Cambridge to witness the foot-ball game with Harvard Saturday, witnessed as plucky an up-hill game on Princeton's part as could have been desired. As the subsequent play indicated, an entirely unprecedented and purely technical decision of the umpire turned the scales in Harvard's favor. Yet although laboring under immense disadvantage from this ruling, and the crippled condition of other members of the team-Princeton kept a team far out-weighing her from scoring for three-qnarters of the game. In the minds of Princeton men there is but little doubt that the issue would...
THOSE who have not yet paid their subscriptions to the freshman eleven will confer a favor on the manager by leaving them at Leavitt and Peirce's, or by sending them to R. H. Post, 48 Brattle street, Cambridge...
...MASON, Secretary.THOSE who have not yet paid their subscriptions to the freshman eleven will confer a favor on the manager by leaving them at Leavitt and Peirce's, or by sending them to R. H. Post, 48 Brattle street, Cambridge...