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Word: fairness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bewitchingly pretty, petite, fascinating, - Cambridge was no longer dull. She seemed to come in among the musty old volumes like a breeze laden with sweet-scented hay. The ladies who accompanied her, - well, perhaps the less said, the better; suffice it to say they were not very fair, nor very fat, but very forty. The taller one carried an umbrella that might have belonged to Sairey Gamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A ROMANCE IN THE LIBRARY. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...first week or two at the beginning of the year is always a time of leisure. No one pretends to study, for in an elective system, as in a horse-race at a county fair, no one takes the course until after a dozen false starts. This is the time, as the college almanac says, to get in your early Bowdoin dissertations. Take a quire of the best letter-paper, and rule off a wide inch of the margin. Write with the blackest of ink very plainly, and give special attention to punctuation. A piece without other points is often...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDOIN PRIZES MADE EASY. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...class, as a body, consider worthy of the honor. Happily no vital issues are at stake in these elections, and the class is not cut up into political parties. So we trust the formation of caucuses and the packing of meetings will not be deemed necessary to secure a fair election. If such a class as '79, which has been characterized by the smoothness of intercourse between its different sections, cannot elect its officers in an open meeting, we shudder for the future of less peaceful classes. What '79 wants, what the College wants, is able and efficient officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...Glee Club, and are happy to say that it is getting along nicely, and will be out in a few days, if all goes well. It has been successful in securing some good new voices to fill the places left vacant by the late graduating class, and "bids fair to enter," as country newspapers would say, "into an era of unparalleled prosperity." We trust that, whether it attempts "real college songs," as it is sometimes urged to do, or gives itself up exclusively to the more chastened delights of the Chickering Collection, it will be as successful as it might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...leave the fair one to be taken home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

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