Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approval is needed. On the one hand, graduates who are conducting businesses in the vicinity can cooperate directly with the bureau; on the other, the University itself can arrange to employ students more generally than in the past in the carrying out of its manifold activities. Once given a fair trial the student employee, even in University positions, will dispel once for all the old bugaboo that he is less efficient that the present professional help...
...Vanity Fair started it. And to Vanity Fair belongs the praise. But science is doing no little to advance the "Society to Advertise the Errors and Ridicule the Pretensions of Science". Nothing could have been more opportune than for science to demonstrate its errors and pretensions...
...tendency in modern biography to be fair instead of flattering, to tell the plain facts instead of forcing the great man to conform to the thesis of the book, began with Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" The new method was so interesting and compelling that later biographies had perforce to copy the manner or fail to arrest attention. But where a man has been made into a myth, as Stevenson certainly has, the task of the biographer becomes doubly hard, for he must go against accepted opinion, and people will only half believe what he says...
...orchestra plans to put on a specialty act, but it has not as yet been announced just what it will be. Harvard and Princeton will divide the stage equally between them, while the Princeton and Harvard Glee Clubs will give a grand finale together consisting of "Old Nassau," and "Fair Harvard." The sale of tickets has been proceeding rapidly, and it is expected that Sanders Theatre will be filled to capacity. Tickets may be bought at Kent's Book Store, at Herrick's, and through the mail at the Harvard Glee Club Office, Music Building...
From the teams which have been playing in the Stadium during the past two days, from a fair knowledge of the condition of the few men still on the injured list, and from a general survey of the work of each player during the seven weeks of football which have already elapsed, a pretty accurate estimate of the starting eleven can be made...