Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toasts, among others, toasts to the various athletic organizations, both class and college, and to the college papers. The responses as a whole were bright and ready. Mr. Faulkner acted as chorister, and under his direction the music added to the pleasure of the evening. The dinner closed with "Fair Harvard" and three times three...
...whole, the new method of examination bids fair, to quote from the report, "to enrich and diversify school programmes; to widen the avenues which lead to the university, without impairing in quantity or quality the preliminary training of any individual boy; and ultimately to utilize as preparatory schools for the university the best of that large class of American schools in which no Greek and only the elements of Latin are taught...
...football men have well deserved cups-far better than they ask for-and we hope the class of Ninety-two is too fair-minded and generous not to respond to their request heartily and freely...
...February Atlantic Monthly is a very attractive number because of the variety and interest of its articles. Of the serials, "Passe Rose" by A. S. Hardy, fully keeps up the interest of the earlier chapters. This bids fair to be one of the best novels of the year. The second installment of Henry James', "The Tragic Muse," is written with all his usual artistic taste. It is too soon to judge of the story as a whole, but the beginning is surely auspicious. Shorter stories are "A Winter Courtship," by Miss Jewett, who is well known as a writer...
...members of the Freshman Glee Club have been practicing faithfully for some weeks, and the prospects of a good club seem to be very fair. With the exception of the pianist, the permanent officers of the club were chosen at the beginning of the term. Before that time the unsettled state of the organization, and the knowledge that the officers were elected only for the time being, made it impossible for the club to have regular times for rehearsals, and, therefore, precluded the possibility, of its rapid progress. At present there are about thirty or forty candidates for positions...