Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oration, the Alumni will form for their march to the Stadium where Alan Russell Blackburn Jr. '29 of Auburndale, Long Island, will deliver the Ivy Oration. The Stadium program includes singing by the Glee Club, the presentation of the Class Banner to the Class of 1932, the Singing of "Fair Harvard" and the usual Confetti Battle...
...points as a result of the last four contests, despite the fact that three of the games were among the hardest on the schedule. Before last Saturday's game, in which the University sluggers found the Red and Blue pitcher for but four scattered hits, the team bade fair to reach the .300 mark...
...outstanding difference between the Seville fair and other European expositions was instantly apparent to opening-day visitors. Instead of finding uncomfortable new buildings in an old and settled town, they discovered a great established park with comparatively old exposition buildings in a hastily modernized city. Seville's exposition has been 19 years in preparation, many times postponed. The main building was used as a hospital during the War. Trees have grown up; the buildings look settled. This winter, however, it was decided that the old crooked streets of Seville were not wide enough for the large expensive automobiles...
...Malay Peninsula for about five minutes early one afternoon last week. Half an hour later ! there were three minutes of almost perfect weather in the Philippines. If there had been perfect weather in all places the world would have been happier. As it was, there was a fair amount of contentment. Several hundred thousand dollars had been ventured on the prospect of there being good weather in those peculiar places during those particular minutes. Some twelve expeditions had traveled half way around the globe with unwieldy scientific impedimenta in order to record a total eclipse...
...specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic or enthusiastic appreciation of more than one country or one age. Furthermore the student who passes from the hands of one tutor to another finds a greater premium placed on his own powers of initiative and coordination...