Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...table and registered. Then they surveyed the room, looking up and down, falling here and there, and withering "dig" after "dig" with their piercing gaze. At last, they too walked out; and I was surprised to see every man straightway leave his seat to seek the name of the fair visitor. They crowded about the book, and I heard a disappointed voice say, "Keokuk, Iowa." It was a clear case of "Go West, young...
...cover to my dear mother. Harvard College, you must know, is situate in a lonely plain, not far from y towne of Boston. There is one principal building in which we all sleep, partake of nourishment, and abyde, numbering twenty-seven souls. It is a large and fair brick structure two storeys high, and I am led to believe that there is scarce an equal to it on this side y ocean. The sleeping apartment consists of a large dormitory furnished with comfortable straw cots. We rise at five and go out into the yard to wash bye y time...
Gentlemen, - Pray accept my best thanks for the package of Vanity Fair Tobacco which I found here yesterday. It is the best tobacco I ever smoked, and will be a great source of enjoyment to me on my Western trip...
...last issue of the Courant contains two full-page illustrations of the boat-races at Yale. Perspective is unknown to the Courant's artist, and in depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than...
...weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...