Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champions of fair Lusk, and Ye of Soards...
...Shall It Be 'Fair Harvard?" is the title of an article in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin which appeared yesterday, written by John du Fais '77, a well-known architect who has recently retired...
...disagreeable incidents, in the second place, those who competed in the Games were far from being trained diplomats, or even, perhaps, average representatives of their countries. They had been picked, not for the impression they might create, but for the points they could win. It would be no more fair to hold them to account for the official expression of their nation's sentiments than it would be fair to judge a university by the actions of certain bodies of its undergraduates after a football victory. Even in this country, where we are all, supposedly, one people, it would...
Just a week ago in the Harvard Stadium Princeton's savage Tigers took the measure of a very limp Harvard football team, 34 to 0. "Fair Harvard was only fair," derided a New York football correspondent. Other New York papers were no kinder; the Boston journals sorry, but callously truthful. It was the most complete rout that Harvard has suffered since the '90's. Those who sat in the crowded Stadium saw a bewildered Crimson eleven, first wondering what under the sun Princeton was about; discovering that Princeton was there for business, and finally, allowing Princeton to go right ahead...
...Harvard athletic world is not, as has been said, a University calamity. It is just a straw; just the first of a series of vivid eye-openers, which will summon the vast and loving army of Harvard graduates to the colors, for the desperately-needed battle against indifference. Fair Harvard must be more than "only fair...