Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mass meeting in Princeton College, Wednesday, the following officers of the Foot-ball Association were elected: Thomas B. Hamilton, class of '88, president; J. R. Barr, class of '89, secretary and treasurer. Wm. J. Cook, class of '89, captain of the team, spoke in favor of Princeton withdrawing from the present intercollegiate league, and uniting with Harvard and Yale in a new one. Prof. Johnson was introduced, and advocated the plan for the purpose of making a more compact league, associating the three leading universities more closely, formulating good rules and eliminating undesirable features. Capt. Larkin of the base-ball...
...been one of the greatest civilizing forces which have developed and built up that continent. It was this very system which uprooted feudalism, and rendered the barbarity at tending it no longer possible. It is true that armies cost something, but so do peaceful governments, yet no one would favor the suppression of the latter. The very nature of our civilization demands that these armies shall be maintained. They have also a historical justification. The Persians. the Egyptians, and the Greeks all maintained large military establishments. Armies protect commerce, they prevent many wars and shorten others. They...
...Columbia will throw her influence strongly in favor of admitting the Yale freshmen to the race, while Yale will favor the admission of the Columbia 'Varsity Crew to the great Harvard-Yale race, which has become the leading sporting event of the season in this country. Columbia had a crew last year that defeated the crack eight from Cambridge and would undoubtedly have given Yale a hot race had the two crews been permitted to meet Columbia has attained such excellence in all branches of athletics that there seems to be no reason why her crew should not be considered...
Walden, '81, a former captain of the nine, is said to be in favor of the proposed league of four colleges.-Yale News...
...meeting of the delegates of Princeton, Columbia and Harvard in Boston to form a new association. We are informed upon the best authority that Yale will also send delegates and enter the new league. The leading base-ball men of Yale have been from the first strongly in favor of the triple league, and their action in the matter has been perfectly honest and straightforward, but they were hampered by the feelings of a part of the college and of the graduates. Now the committee have full power and they have decided to enter the new league in spite...