Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decreased by just so much. To be sure, the Williams team will undoubtedly do good work, but they can hardly be expected to do as well as the team which has heretofore represented Dartmouth. From a selfish point of view we have reason to regard this change with favor, but the regret at losing the old and well-known club will over-balance, in the mind of every fair minded lover of base-ball, any momentary impulse of joy which may spring up at the thought of our increased chances for a victorious season...
From '87, Bartol, Bowels, H. A. Buck, Burgess, Cameron, F. S. Coolidge, Cox, Dexter, Endicott, R. F. Fiske, Heckscher, Herron, Higginson, Keyes, Mumford, Sampson, Snelling, Wheelwright. Ushers will meet in the gymnasium at 10 o'clock Saturday, to receive instructions. All who cannot act will confer a great favor by notifying F. Remington, 42 Brattle St. at once...
...education at Cornell is in high favor, for Sage College is full. Hon. Henry W. Sage lately gave $60,000 for the endowment of a chair in Christian ethics and mental philosophy, and next year there comes to the university as head of the department of Philosophy Prof. J. G. Schuman, who at present holds a chair at Dalhousie College, Halifax. Furthermore, the department of oriental languages will be discontinued. Next year, beside the probable establishment of the Cornell law school, special attention will be paid to the classical and chemical departments, each of which will be built...
...Ashe, who is of very slight build. The first round was opened by Ashe with a smart blow on Thomas' face; in return getting a couple of body blows. Both men were evidently saving themselves for the last two rounds. Time was called with the round in Ashe's favor. Thomas began work in the second, evidently trying to make his superior weight and strength tell by beating down his opponent, and although he got in some heavy one's, Ashe managed to give a number of telling face blows. The third round was opened by a determined effort...
...vote on the merits of the question stood, affirmative, 31: negative, 10. The principal disputants were: affirmative, A. T. Perkins, '87, and E. E. Shoemaker, '89; negative, N. F. Hesseltine, 88, and G. A. Reisner, '89. The vote on the skill of argument of these disputants resulted in favor of the negative, 35 votes...