Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Lynn. The first game resulted in our favor by a score of 14 to 9, but last Saturday the Live Oaks turned the tables on us. A glance at the score will tell the whole story, - sharp fielding and weak batting on the part of our opponents, and fair batting, but poor fielding, by our nine...
Where only things of heaven were fair, and naught as fair as flowers...
...burlesque "Villikins and his Dinah." The farce was written for the society by Dr. F. A. Harris, a graduate member, and though depending more than usual upon the absurdity of situations for its effect, and inferior to his former farce "Chums," yet it received deservedly a fair share of applause. The Honorable Mr. Buncombe as personated by Mr. Sargent, and Mr. Joy in the character of Mrs. Taylor, were both well received, as was also Mr. Harris, in the part of Frank Buncombe...
Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns
...vain do we search in our relentless critic's article for hearty, unbegrudged praise. Of some of the finest essays not a word. Were he disposed to be fair even, he could hardly fail to acknowledge the merits of "Quotation and Originality," of the "Progress of Culture." His complaint that he finds nothing practical in such a particularly unpractical, un-bread-and-butter subject as "Poetry and Imagination," and his surprise at hearing nothing new or startling on "Immortality," are fair specimens of his captious criticism...