Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fair maiden, in whose willing...
...Cambridge Press would perhaps do well to restrict its Harvard correspondent to sign-boards and other similar subjects that give a fair field for the exercise of his somewhat lively imagination; for his attempts to deal with facts are remarkable for brilliancy rather than accuracy, that is, if we can judge from the way in which he speaks of the "electric" system, and from the following Junior forensic subject, as given in the Press, - "Is the popular estimate of Micawber as the ideal historian erroneous...
...when at last the two girls came down, I resolved on a bold move in the face of the enemy, and asked the fair Miss Ethel if she would go with my detachment, and was bearing her off in triumph when the dragon stopped us with hurried explanations that a cutter-sleigh was the coldest thing in the world, and that Ethel could not bear it; in fine, that she, the Widow Earl, would and should sacrifice herself and ride with...
...bell for our last recitation is ringing; a few hours more, and we shall all be on our way domum. We shall come back full of good resolutions, but full of conceit; and it will take a deal of snubbing and many a chapter of "Vanity Fair" to get us into a healthful state again...
...seems but fair to inform those Freshmen who failed to make up "Classical Lectures" that the paper was not set nor the books marked by the last year's instructor, whose offer to do so was declined...