Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet will bring to Cambridge some of the outstanding preparatory stars of the country and bids fair to be the most successful in the long history of Harvard Interscholastic Track Glassics...
...also feel that if there is no such pronounced public opinion sufficient to deter future offenses against good taste and the fair name of Harvard, such an opinion among undergraduates and alumni should be created under stress of such an article as was recently published in the Lampoon and sanctioned by its outgoing as well as incoming president. The editors of the Lampoon, responsible for such an article, should be made to feel not only that it injures the character and standing of the Lampoon itself to use its columns for the publication of articles in such bad taste...
...solemn public duty of being whimsical weighs a little heavier each year on Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week the aging Baronet again consented to do his whimsiest. A good many people hoped it would be better than last year, when the creator of Peter Pan opened a fair in his native Scotland with a long story about how he had passed the evening with Mary Queen of Scots and would have brought her along to the fair, only she vanished...
Girls Gone Wild (Fox). Irrelevant interventions of a gang war, written subtitles and a synchronized sound accompaniment, do not keep a cop's son from marrying a millionaire's daughter in a silly picture that will probably be a fair box-office hit. Typical shot: a dying gangster stiffening in the arms of a society girl with whom he was dancing when shot...
Even without such a stimulus the minor sports in Harvard have received a steady increase in undergraduate interest which reached its peak this spring when the call for candidates for the lacrosse team resulted in a larger turnout of men than any major team has received. It seems only fair that the men making this team should receive some insignia which at least approaches in importance that awarded to men on major sports teams, places on which were gained in a smaller field of competitors...