Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pleasant memories, fond and fair...
...well-known Mr. Fair, of Nevada, honored the college by a visit last week, and the hospitality of several societies was gladly extended to him. The monotony of life here is so rarely broken by the visits of really distinguished men, that when such a prominent gentleman as Mr. Fair comes among us the event is regarded with great interest and remembered with satisfaction...
...last Monday night both the unanimous selection of certain officers and the good-natured though eager strife over others showed a dominant desire to choose only the best men, irrespective of other considerations. For their willingness to sink all society feeling, and their desire to secure a fair and honorable election, not only the College but all friends of Harvard must thank the Class...
Admission to Oxford seems to be easy. The applicant is examined in some Greek play, generally Euripides, or in Homer and Thucydides, in Virgil or some other of the Latin classics; must translate a short English passage into Latin prose, answer some questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...
...young and fair, "Where goest thou...