Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacle of an aeroplane cleaving through the skies. As a sport, its devotees place it high above the earthly pleasures of football or rowing. But it has not yet found its place among the recognized college sports of American universities. Annual college contests in the air bid fair to rival in interest and excitement the popular field sports of yesterday. The pioneers in this movement are undergraduates at Harvard, and already, within a year after doffing their flying uniforms for college robes, they have won a score and more of College Flying Clubs to their plan. Several universities in America...
According to Coach Young's statement the present prospects are promising for a good Freshman team. Among the 51 men who have been reporting there is good pitching and outfield material and the nucleus of a fair infield. At present it appears that the lack of capable infielders will be the chief handicap of the team. In order to get the best possible line on his men, Coach Young has determined to defer the first cut until the team has had an opportunity to practice out of doors...
...what the paramount problems of the next four years will be. The major political parties are slow to join issue on any of those which seem likely to be highly controversial. All candidates alike profess to stand for peace, retrenchment, and reform. We know that Mr. Hoover is a fair-minded and a progressive minded man. We belive that the problems of the future are most likely to be solved with success by the man who has successfully solved those of the past. I hope that the efforts of the Hoover League of Harvard will help to bring about...
...conditions the competition for the $15 prize offered by the Glee Club for words to be set to the music of the Belgian National Hymn will be extended to April 1. The Glee Club hopes by this offer to secure for this tune words in the style of "Fair Harvard" which may in time become a traditional Harvard song. The management has already received several excellent translations but will be unable to use them, as original words rather than translations were desired...
Lloyd George's new party, "The Moderates," is to be recruited from the ranks of the Conservatives and Laborites (Radicals)--and the name "Moderates" is a poor substitute for "Liberals." Further--it is fair to assume that with the individuals go their respective party principles. Yet Mr. Weaver would maintain that in Liberalism there is no room for either Radicalism or Conservatism...