Word: favors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wishing to present articles for consideration for the January number of the Harvard Monthly will confer a favor by leaving their manuscripts with the secretary on or before December...
President Eliot expressed himself in favor of the proposed club. He said that the chief difficulty would arise from the question of money. He said that $100,000 would doubtless be necessary for the building alone. He thought that $15,000 a year would be hardly sufficient for the expenses of the club. If each man were to be assessed $10 a year membership fee, as proposed, it would take 1500 members to make up this...
...other speakers of the evening all expressed themselves as heartily in favor of the scheme...
Much less is being said nowadays, in favor of having work done by students in college papers substituted for the requirements of English courses. Almost the only approach to such a system is in cases where work meeting the requirements of a college course is also contributed to a student periodical,- which is of course an entirely different thing, though it meets what is in many cases the desired...
...played in Philadelphia yesterday before 12,000 people. At the end of the first half the score stood 17 to 0. In the second half Cornell Weakened perceptibly and Pennsylvania scored 29 points more, while Cornell scored only a safety, making the final score 46 to 0 in favor of Pennsylvania...