Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these papers to men preparing for examinations. We will only say that we think that the members of the faculty, or those who have had the matter in charge, by taking more care in future to see that papers are put in the library, will do no slight favor to students of the college. We hope that every one of the recent examinations will be represented on the library shelves...
...attempt a slight analysis of our poets and their work. First in favor is the amorous versifier. He sings in the abstract and therefore for all. His "Genevieve" is our "Genevieve;" in the beauty and grace of his love we see the ten-fold greater beauty and grace of our love. And so we applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings...
...Yale News has an editorial in favor of the inter-scholastic base-ball league...
...present winter, is well calculated to meet the needs of our undergraduates, yet there is one feature of the winter lectures of past years that we would gladly see repeated. No course of lectures, Dr. Royce's lectures on Californian history, perhaps, excepted, has been received with such favor as that delivered under the auspices of the Historical Society, during the winter of 1883-84, on the campaigns and battles of the Rebellion. Great as was the interest then manifested in this subject, we feel that there exists to-day even a stronger desire for information concerning this important epoch...
...correspondent to-day, who complains of his first examination, certainly hits upon a very vital point in the whole system of examinations. We believe most devoutly that the system would have greater success and meet with good favor, if care were taken to have the examination papers easy. But, setting this matter aside, it is not inappropriate for us to make the few remarks, that this time of the year always suggests, on the manner of conducting examinations. We have already published some advice to proctors, which doubtless will not be heeded. We hope in addition that the rooms where...