Word: favors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...doesn't suit us and we are getting beaten. There is a Rules Committee on basketball, just as there is on football, which meets every year to discuss how the game could be improved. There are five on the Committee and last year it stood three to two in favor of dribbling. Everybody who plays the game admits that that is more than half the cause of its roughness, and also doubles the difficulty of the referee's duties. By preventing dribbling it would improve the game more than a hundred per cent., and I am pretty certain that...
...innings. The same battery worked for both teams and after two innings gave way to a new one. Only eight men batted on a side, but otherwise the game proceeded in a fairly regular way. At the end of the ninth inning the score stood 8 to 6 in favor of team A. Errors were frequent, but were atoned for by a few good plays. Batting rallies by team B in the first inning and by team A in the seventh and eighth added interest to the game...
Finally there is a growing sentiment in favor of arbitration and the judicial settlement of disputes. It is not the dream of the few, but the positive need of men and nations that we have a court of international arbitration where quarries and all other differences among nations may be finally settled. Undoubtedly we shall have such a court in the near future...
...wrestling G. D. Osgood '12 won the light-weight match in one bout. The middle-weight contest, however, was only decided in favor of R. M. Page '10 after three rounds. As no one contested P. Withington's title of University heavy-weight champion, he gave an exhibition match with Mr. Anderson, the instructor in wrestling. This bout was unfinished on account of Withington's injury to his ankle...
...offering each year a course of lectures or conferences for the guidance of men who are trying to choose a profession. Such men are likely to form superficial or conventional conceptions of what the different professions are and what qualities they require, and to decide in favor of one or against another on very insufficient evidence. Thus a man who shows a talent for debate thinks he is cut out for a lawyer, and one who has a moderate amount of mechanical ingenuity thinks he is born to be an engineer. The first test of exact thinking and careful reasoning...