Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steps taken by the Student Council last night to institute a budget bids fair to abolish yet another feudal survival in the University. The proposal to raise in a single drive funds to meet the annual expenses of organization and charity can be regarded from no point of view with anything but approval. Harvard is the last large university in the East to adopt this method and it is to be hoped that the experience of other institutions will, in contributing the success of the plan here, more than offset the delay in its adoption...
...Prince. At Birmingham, most celebrated of British industrial centres, Edward of Wales visited the local Trade Fair and stepped upon a pair of scales to oblige their maker. The pointer spun, stopped at 137 pounds, to the satisfaction of the Prince who has tapered off his meat lately, lest he grow fat, and his drink, lest his tendency to nervousness increase. He is said to be "setting the fashion for modest four-course dinners...
...months ago, at least, that Carlos the Crook tried to inveigle the lion-hearted Andy Gump into buying fake oil stock. And about a month later the same scoundrel, Carlos, treacherously stole the modest bank roll of the fair Widow Zander...
...Glee Club authorities will change the roster on their different trips in order that every member may be given a fair opportunity to sing...
...undergraduate waiters have been working have obviously been burdensome and irritating. Equally plainly their service has been unsatisfactory. The connection between these two facts cannot be blinked. The plan of student waiters will not justly be open to condemnation until a sincere effort has been made to establish fair and attractive conditions of employment. The recommendations of the Student Council committee seem admirably calculated to accomplish this purpose...