Word: fairer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...advantage of or not, just as he chooses. This tendency has been shown again and again by the annual reports of the president and the dean. If, therefore, the new regulation means anything at all, it means that the system of voluntary recitations, which has really never received a fairer trial, has proved a failure, and that the Harvard student is not prepared for the liberty hitherto tacitly allowed him. In other words, the advance of the last four years has been in the wrong direction...
...degree uncared for. This year, however, the case is very different, while last year the number of tennis players in college was not largely in excess of the accommodation in the way of courts, some slight alterations in the rules made it possible to put matters in a much fairer condition. But since that time, Holmes field, which supplied the greater number of the courts, has become practically useless, and will probably remain so for some time. As a result, all those tennis players who owned courts on that field are now obliged to seek elsewhere. The number...
...sparring matches where there are three contestants the "bye" was not boxed off until the next meeting it would certainly be much fairer...
...seven. If the rule is adopted, it will of course give a great advantage to pitchers who have good control of the ball, and likewise be detrimental to those who have not. We strongly favor the new rule, however, for the reason that it gives the batsman a fairer show to hit the ball, and will tend to greatly raise the batting averages which were so low last year. It will also make the games more exciting and interesting than those of last year, where in some cases two or three scratch hits were all that were made...
...sixth resolution conferring all games to the home grounds, they consider as objectionable, because some colleges have none, and because, as has been so often said, it is fairer in deciding games to play on neutral ground. Then...