Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program follows: Fair Harvard March, "Our Director" Bigelow Overture to "The Calif of Bagdad" Boieldieu Waltz, "Imperial" Strauss Ballet Egyptain Luigini 1. Allegro non troppo 2. Allegretto 3. Andante sostenuto 4. Andante espressivo Serenade Drigo Three Dances from "Henry VIII" German 1. Morris Dance 2. Shepherd Dance 3. Torch Dance Cortege Gounod
...have heard most of these poets, at the Harvard Poetry Society, read better verses than those which represent them in this number of the Advocate I do not feel that the present selections are a fair showing of their ability. There is more good verse being written at Harvard now than there has been for number of years. It is for the Advocate to spur the poets on to produce their best, for in this issue, the prose writers out strip the poets a situation almost unheard of in undergraduate letters. ROBERT HILLYE
...effort to end useless procrastination was clearly evinced when General Pelle, head of the French delegation, informed Ismet Pasha, chief Turkish delegate, that France intended to get a fair settlement of the Ottoman debt, to retain her concessions-given to her in 1914-and to remain in Syria. He also informed Ismet Pasha that France is prepared to send two divisions (or more if necessary) to Syria. At the same time as General Pelle was making French policy clear to Ismet Pasha a Turkish member was explaining to the press that Turkey had sent troops to the Syrian border " because...
Night flying is also being prepared for between London and Paris. The trail from the London Terminus at Croydon to Lympe, where the airplanes set out across the narrow English Channel, is already a fair blaze of light. It has been named "the Regent Street of the Continental Airways." The Londoner will avoid his early closing hours by flying to Paris, doing a heavy round of Montmartre and still return early enough to rest up before his office in the morning...
...advisable to ask Phi Beta Kappa to forsake its standards and be come also an extra-curriculum activity. . . . The election to Phi Beta Kappa means just one thing, no more and no less, and everyone knows what the key stands for. It means that in open competition with a fair field and no favor the key is given to those who have excelled in the studies of the curriculum, Phi Beta Kappa connotes scholarship and it would be changing both its policy and its standards to make it cannot anything else. In case men were selected for anything except scholarship...