Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received several letters from Freshmen, - one of which we print, - claiming that the vote at the class meeting held last week was not a fair expression of the sentiment of the class, and urging that the race with Cornell be abandoned. The dread of being beaten and the objection to spending money on anything which is not remunerative seem to be the causes of the unhealthy tone in these communications. We trust they embody the views of a very small minority of the class. The interests of the University demand that a Freshman crew should be supported and trained...
SINCE the cat-show in Boston and the congress of fair women in New York, it has been proposed to have an intercollegiate exhibition of Freshmen. The genus Freshman certainly presents many interesting varieties, and such a show, if properly managed, might be both moral and instructive. One morning the attendance was divided as follows: Faculty 3, Seniors 15, Juniors 12, Sophomores 3, Freshmen 8. The cry is for a total discontinuance of chapel exercises...
...boyhood's hours, when all was bright and fair...
...vogue at the Library, we wish to call attention to one desirable change. Every one who studies there must notice how much easier it is to concentrate his attention upon his books now than it was when, every time he raised his eyes, he caught sight of some fair maiden shut up in a dim recess behind an impassable bar, just like the heroine of a fairy-tale. All this is changed; but still the obstacle to study is not wholly removed. The most inveterate grind can scarcely maintain his composure, and calmly shuffle those puzzling cards in the catalogue...
...Farnesian Hercules! they were taking out opera-glasses, - they were indeed! I knew that some of the fair sex had carried telescopes to the Globe to spy Rignold, but this, - this was an innovation...