Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be acceptable to a college congregation. The easy access which we have to New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia, where reside nearly all the celebrated clergy of our times, offers another and a strong inducement to the acceptance of this plan. But perhaps the strongest argument in its favor is the general approval it would receive from the students, while its practicability is proven by its present success at Harvard, and by its past history at Yale. In the first place the interest of the students must be aroused before any good can come. That one man alone cannot...
...debate was decided in favor of the affirmative...
...stated that the Princeton faculty have under consideration the advisability of changing Princeton College into a university after the fashion set by Yale. One of the strongest arguments in favor of the proposed change is the ease with which it can be accomplished...
President Barnard of Columbia, and President Webb of the College of the City of New York, are not in favor of a conference of college presidents to take action in regard to the regulation of athletic sports as proposed by President McCosh of Princeton. They claim that fully as good results can be secured by correspondence as by a conference, and a saving of valuable time made...
Lost. A pair of gloves, finder will confer a favor by leaving them at the Auditors Office, Memorial Hall...