Word: fair
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...asking too much of the instructor to take into account all such little matters, but it is rather surprising to see an examination announced upon such short notice. We suppose, however, that the elective system is open to just such little surprises as these, for it would seem hardly fair to allow students freedom of choice when professors are compelled to give examinations only at stated periods...
...fair, to every one's delight. When, at 2.15, both teams filed out upon the athletic field, a heavy northwest wind was blowing across it, and the ground was slippery; but there was no rain. New seats had been erected on the grounds, and all these, and the old ones were crowded with spectators. The audience was reckoned at 2500, of which a large part were ladies...
...undergraduates. We are sorry to say that when even meat signs and the better part of lamp posts are frequently found adorning students rooms, it is no stretch of the imagination to suppose for a moment that some patriotic student has claimed his country's flag as the fair guerdon of a night raid. But we are very loth to think for a moment that such is the case. Indeed, evidences seem to point in much the opposite direction. Not for many years has there been gathered in the city so motley an assemblage as last Monday evening witnessed filling...
...because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius of the author. A great occasion needed a great composition, and the skillful pen of the master has here traced words that will add much to the lustre of an already fair and shining reputation. Jewels of thought some of native gold, some chosen from that intellectual wealth gained little by little, from all countries and from all minds which Mr. Lowell more than almost any other American has laid away in the storehouse of his thought, - jewels of such worth...
...great feature of the parade, however, was the great Mott Haven Cup, which now appeared, drawn on a low cart by two horses. It was ten feet high, and nine broad, was a very fair fac-simile of the cup itself, being made all the more realistic by being covered with silver paper. Seated on the rich folds of red cloth which swathed the base of the cup, were Messrs. J. M. Hallowell, '88, and H. D. Hale, '88, its proprietors. Immediately after the cup came a most...