Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delayed for a much longer time. But the ground is of a very porous nature, and may be readilydrained; then, too, the field of course would not be flooded after the final thaw began. Therefore, the two objections urged against the plan are of very small weight. But in favor of such a plan, there is everything to be said...
PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 16.College voted unanimously in favor of the new base-ball league...
...although batting steadily, fielded miserably during the first three innings, the score standing 15 to 9 against them. Lowell is blanked in the fourth, and Harvard tallies one. Lowell piles up four in runs in the fifth, but Harvard makes eight, on heavy hitting; score, 19 to 18 in favor of Lowell. Lowell finds a goose-egg in the sixth, and Harvard scores two runs amid such "deafening applause" that the umpire calls for silence; score, 20 to 19 in favor of Harvard. "Ether-rending applause, and sun-darkening cloud of flying beavers." Lowell scores two runs and Harvard five...
...oratorical contest, Thursday, at Buchtel College, Akron, O., to select a representative to the state inter collegiate contest, there were among the contestants a young lady, named Miss Mary Sibbley, and H. C. Morris, a son of a Chicago millionaire. The judges decided in favor of the young lady, and upon this the father of the young man sprang up and charged the judges with being prejudiced. The son has chalenged the young lady for a second contest for $1000 a side, the stakes to go for the founding of a hospital in Akron, to be named after the successful...
Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis, - which in lingua vernacula significes "May Fortune and the Faculty favor the sons as they have their fathers." Yesterday we published the first of a series of articles recalling the victories and defeats and hard-won fights of the various notable athletic teams which have represented Fair Harvard on flood and field in bygone days. The compiler of these historical potpourris has many a curious legend to tell, - of how that famous crew of 185 - , or was it 186, - when hard pressed by her mighty opponents on Lake Winnipiseogee, and almost swamped by the mighty...