Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AFTER four ineffectual attempts to secure a game, the Nine finally succeeded in obtaining a fair day on Saturday last, and were badly defeated by the New Bedfords. Owing to injuries received in practice, Winsor was disabled, and Delano, who replaced him behind the bat, was unable to face-Folsom's swift delivery. Nunn played a plucky uphill game in the field, and Howe made three fine base-hits, but the rest of the batting was poor. The following is the score...
...though the rest have charms as fair...
...wont fair maidens' fates to tell...
...come to the middle class, - those who, without taking honours in a subject, or getting a part, have a fair general average. This class, say the inventors of the new scheme, will be greatly benefited; the result on this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which...
WHEN fields are green and days are fair...