Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lilacs bloom in the dooryard, and it was no longer to serve the old house-dog for a comfortable lounge. It was to know the feet that frequent a college entry. The sights and sounds of its new experience had little in common with those of its first fair year, although, perhaps, the unsteady steps that were wont to cross it late o' nights did call to memory the little feet that toddled over it when the baby ran out on the front lawn to pick buttercups...
...love's bright eyes so sparkling fair...
...fair child, and with fell face and grim
...seem that the pretty cub has already developed into a monster whose insatiable appetite threatens us all with destruction. With prophetic foresight I contemplate in horror the consequences of its continuance among us; I see a time, not far off, when the boldest student will have fled; when these fair halls will be the home of desolation, and the recitation-rooms of University know no occupants but the ghosts of the dead. And what of those who reared the beast that shall have undone us? Will the analogy be completed? I see - But no! here the curtain must be drawn...
...greater man. The refining influence of female society is a subject that has been so thoroughly exhausted of late years that I will not bore you by entering upon it. I shall only advise you to avoid what I call gentlemen ladies, - the converse of ladies' men, - fair creatures who are more popular with our sex than with their own. Whether truly or not, it always seems to me that they accommodate themselves to us instead of making us accommodate ourselves to them; and therefore that they are not particularly useful for your purpose...