Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. - Cloth hat (brown) blown off in yard on Tuesday night. Finder will render a great favor by returning same to 29 Grays Hall...
...next event, putting the shot, was also a disappointment to the Harvard men. Chamberlain, Harvard, '86, having two professionals, J. D. Ryan and J. Cunningham against him. These latter men were allowed to throw the shot while Chamberlain made a square put. The result, as was natural, was in favor of the professionals. The records were Ryan, 38 feet 3 inches; Cunningham, 38 feet; Chamberlain, 36 feet 5 inches...
...before the spring races, thus strengthening the crew very considerably. With these future additions, there seems to be no special reasons why, if the crew works hard and intelligently, they should not make the race next spring very exciting, though, of course, eighty seven has the chances in her favor from having won the race last year. While it is as yet impossible to say what eighty-six will do, as there will be several changes in the boat and as they made no record last year from which they can be judged...
...things has changed. Now, even those who themselves at tend prayers with pleasure, or who would attend them with pleasure, if they were voluntary, feel that this pleasure is tainted by the consideration that they are not free. Even these persons who look on prayers with a certain favor, feel that to make them compulsory is wrong; that there is nothing in public prayers so natural and so necessary that it should be a student's duty to attend them. It cannot be denied by one who tries to be sincere that, if all students were anxious...
Light dumb-bells are daily growing in favor with the crew and nine candidates in the gymnasium...