Word: favors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pictures in the intercollegiate photographic competition between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania will be judged today in New York by Mr. Alfred Stieglitz, President of the New York Camera Club, Mrs. Gertrude Kaesebeer and Mr. George Rockwood. The judgment will be made in favor of the exhibition ranking highest as a whole. A first and second prize and two honorable mentions will be awarded for individual work...
...bill. The principal speakers against the project were E. G. Prescott, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, J. F. Boyd of the Associated Board of Trade, J. F. Crocker and W. Pierce, members of the Chamber of Commerce, and C. White, of the Railroad Commission. Those who spoke in favor of the bill were J. J. Storrow '85 and N. Matthews, Jr., '75, ex-mayor of the city of Boston. It is expected that the commission will make a report on the project in about ten days...
...jokes and stories, the shorter pieces are the best, with perhaps one exception in favor of "Sherlock Holmes in Cambridge." The latter stays closely enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails...
Alexander is extremely conscientious, and has been improving rapidly in form. One quality which counts very much in his favor is his willingness to work...
...Portland last night by the score of 32 to 24. Harvard had the ball more than half the time, but the players were unaccustomed to the floor and could not cage many baskets. At the end of the first half the score was only 17 to 16 in favor of Portland, but in the second half Harvard fell behind and tried many impossible throws for goal...