Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have a profound distrust of Yale in these matters, and we do not like to see our college put in so undignified a light before the world. Moreover, we have watched these matters for years, and we know that on the average Princeton is going to be far more fair and gentlemanly in these matters than Yale. Princeton had a number of available graduate players this year, and she did what she is firmly convinced Yale and Harvard have been doing for many years-persuaded them to come back and play. If it had not been for the smaller colleges...
...professional. Affidavits have been shown to prove this, and a facsimile of a letter of Ames's tending in the same direction. It appears also that Ames and others have produced counter affidavits and declarations that the letter is a forgery. Now my first question: Why is it not fair and just to give Ames and Princeton the benefit of the doubt till the facts are established, or, at least, leave the question open? If the facts are established let us have them...
...Cambridge. And yet, I fear, only because there is no such disparity in the score, there is mutually admiration and good feeling between Harvard and Yale. "Those of us who were in college when Princeton was the friend and Yale the enemy owe to Princeton our efforts for fair play and fair consideration, and I know that numbers of Harvard men are with me in condemning the action of the Harvard mass meeting as hasty and premature. Let us wait till the evidence is all in and sifted before casting off an old friend and falling into the arms...
...Amateur Athletic Union has determined to hold an athletic meeting on a large scale during the progress of the coming world's fair...
...stayed; it changed sides often because both teams fumbled execrably. But the Athletic club eleven was doing better work, and slowly forced the play to Harvard's line. A four o'clock Hunt broke through the freshman line and scored a touchdown. The ball was punted out and a fair catch allowed; but the try for goal was a failure. Score, Ninety-three, 5; B. A. A., 4. When the ball was put in play, the fresmen braced in their play, and during the remainder of the half kept the ball in the middle of the field. The half ended...