Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students will this afternoon be given the opportunity of witnessing what bids fair to be a brilliant game of lacrosse. The visiting team is made up of old and experienced players whose skill and endurance have won the championship of Canada. The college will place in the field a strong twelve, many of whose members played upon the team which last year brought to Cambridge the double championship, that of the inter-collegiate association and of the United States. While the match of this afternoon must not be looked upon in the light of an international contest, yet it will...
Rule 31 makes it impossible for the man who receives the ball when snapped back from a "down" or thrown back from a "fair" to carry the ball forward under any circumstances...
...well known "Fay House" on Garden street, in old Cambridge, that Dr. Samuel Gilman, of Charleston, S. C., wrote his ode, "Fair Harvard," in 1836. Dr. Gilman graduated at Harvard in 1811. This house is truly dedicated to Fair Harvard, as it is now the abode of the Annex students...
...good only by recruits from among the freshmen. From them, then, the college expects a strong delegation to compete for the vacant places on the team. A special meeting is held every fall for freshmen only, in which the winners receive suitable prizes. In these sports every freshman of fair physique is expected to enter. We urge eighty-nine to make its meeting a success by presenting a large field of entries in every event...
Their arrival is hailed by a yell from a thousand throats, and the plaudits of the fair ones in the balconies. On they come, till they are opposite the senior fence; "Halt," cries their leader, and the column comes to a rest. Then the seniors rise, and at the command of their chief give three hearty cheers for '88, who respond by three equally strong ones for '85. Acknowledging this courtesy, '85 gives three more cheers for the freshmen, who doff their hats and move on to the junior fence, where the same scenes are repeated. As they round...