Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life it were unfair to place scholarship itself in the other scalepan. The undergraduate attitude at Harvard is a nebulous thing on many points, but not on this one. And since the ghost of the Big-Man-in-His-Class shows only a periodic taste for walking, it seems fair to believe that Harvard undergraduate publications offer the same reward as any other serious, nonathletic outside activity of college life: experience with human beings...
...general opinion of the members of the team, when approached on the subject after the examination, seemed to be that the test was fair and in fact less difficult than what they had expected. Asked individually if they would make any predictions as to the outcome of the contest, the members of the team all declined on the grounds that they knew nothing of the power of their opponents...
...discovered it to be: not quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding...
...Three hundred and fifty eight . . . nine . . . three hundred and sixty . . . three hundred and sixty . . . three hundred and sixty . . . fair warning . . . three hundred and sixty . . . are you all through . . . three hundred and sixty thousand dollars for this masterpiece by Thomas Gainsborough...
...Eece Jam Noctis Chadwick 2. a. Choeur des Chameliers Franck b. Salamaleikum Cornelius J. H. De Nike '28, soloist c. Around us Hear the Songs of Even Dvorak d. The Boys of '87 De Nike, soloist Spalding 3. From Folk Songs a. Gently Johnny b. Mon Pere a Fair Baur Maison c. La-bas, sur ces Montagnes C. D. Duhig '29, soloist d. The Campbells are Coming Chorus from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan