Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Rich and precious and fair its shrine...
...vision is seen of a maiden fair...
...start was pretty fair, and none tried too hard for the lead. Matthews rolled badly, and showed neither uniformity nor individual good rowing. None of the crews "sat" their boat well, but there was some very clean and precise rowing, for second crews, in the other three boats. The steering of the Holworthy and Weld coxswains was remarkably good, up the course especially, both crews leaving a perfectly straight path behind them, while the wakes of Matthews, and more particularly of Holyoke, showed by their many crooks the excitement and want of practice of the hands that held the tiller...
...attention has been called to the preceding extract from a Boston paper of Monday last. Several private complaints of a similar sort have reached us. These complaints are not without foundation. When boating-men invite their fair friends to witness their exploits, they should remember that the social condition of the nineteenth century materially differs from that of antique Arcadia...
...residents of the neighborhood, and the matter was brought before the Trustees of the village. The Trustees passed a vote to the effect that "it should be unlawful for any person or persons to play ball anywhere within the corporate limits of said village (Ithaca), except on the new fair ground or some lot not adjacent to residences or public streets." The "new fair ground" is said to be in a most wretched condition, so damp that it is impossible to play on it but for a few weeks during the College year, and more than two miles distant from...