Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your letter of April 29 I have received today. I agree with an Italian to whom I read it who said: "That is very fair of them...
...Miss Becky Sharp" in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair attends a school known as Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. Few know that "Miss Pink's" is a real school. It celebrated last week its 100th anniversary, at Eastbourne, whence the school was removed some years ago from the original site in Chiswick Mall, London...
...class will march to the Stadium where the Ivy Oration will be given by G. McN. Gates '27. After the cheering, the Glee Club will render a brief informal program, which is to be followed by the presentation of the class banner to the Freshman Class. The singing of Fair Harvard, and the Confetti Battle will end the afternoon events...
...have heard wonder expressed," says the writer, "that the Herald-Crimson does not contain more items of college news, but it is fair to say that the 'Fact and Rumor' column is somewhat deficient in that respect. But who is to blame for this state of things...
Here lies an assured and inescapable truth. It is the stronger because, even while firmly proclaiming its strength, it willingly recognizes its own limitations. Schools never yet have created an atom of genius; but rare, exceedingly rare, is the man of fair endowment who cannot, by schooling, increase his own competence and his worth to society, whether in business or in botany, in finance or in philology. The Boston Transcript...