Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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What is precisely the ideal significance of these exercises, the practical outcome of which is more like a fracas at an Irish fair than a ceremony in which gentlemen are participating...
Despite, however, these arguments in support of Harvard's wish to secede, some of the graduates, and a few newspapers, warn Harvard against leaving the Association because of the "odium" which she will certainly incur by such a course. Fair Harvard will be dishonored, for-sooth, if a few penny-a-liners, through dearth of news, choose to call her motives of action base; Harvard will lose men's esteem, should she acknowledge her real feelings and cast aside all shuffling and timidity; Harvard, indeed, the oldest and largest university in the land, whose children hold - and have always held...
Fairest among the fair...
...stately maiden, tall and fair...
...class, or from discontent if its members are too small to entitle it to the lion's share. It must be remembered that all do not have an equal interest in the success of Class Day, nor do all contribute equally to that success, so that it is but fair that those men should be chosen for the more important places to whom the success of the arrangements is of the greatest importance. If petty jealousies are subdued, we may be sure that the "Reform Act of '76," as some one called it, will long be remembered as making...