Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early part of the season detracts little from the record of eight successive victories over the best of eastern hockey combinations. The Toronto university team, in its sweeping tour of the country, succeeded in keeping a clean slate and successively crushed the strongest college sextets, thereby gaining a fair claim to the world's amateur hockey title. In the face of such an impressive record the Crimson's decisive defeat at the hands of the Canadians testifies not so much to the weakness of the University players as to the super-brilliance of the visitors...
...college contests alone are counted, the Crimson has a fair claim to a championship season, its only defeat being at the hands of a Canadian, team, while the B. A. A. and Westminster, both teams composed of former college stars, were the only combinations to hold Coach Claflin's men to an even decision...
...trip was planned to accomplish several distinct purposes. In the first place the Deans realize that the large number of men from the West will be seeking employment in western concerns and feel that it is only fair that the School let the future employers know the aims and purposes of its work in order that they will neither expect too little or too much...
...believe it is fair to say that many college presidents are worrying over the athletic situation in their respective colleges. This does not mean that they are opposed to athletics. Quite the contrary. As a matter of fact, we are inclined to be too enthusiastic. When our team makes a touchdown our behavior is not to be distinguished from that of any other academic lunatic. But when we get back to our right minds and begin to count the cost there is apt to be a bad quarter of an hour...
Experimental theatres in the last few years have been blossoming like the proverbial dandelion, and most of them have been almost as ephemeral. Our local specimen, the Boston Stage Society, seems to have survived the winter, and bids fair to become a hardy perennial. This earnest group of amateurs is working under conditions which make dramaphiles incline to point them out for charity. This first production, it is said, cost them but fifteen dollars for costumes and scenery: but with the insignificant admission charged, and the meagre patronage they have received, even such economy is no assurance of a safe...