Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short time ago Prof. Agassiz, formerly a member of the advisory committee on boating, thinking that committee were not receiving fair treatment at the hands of the Boston Herald wrote the following letter to it which we publish by request...
...girls of Vassar College have presented Governor Cleveland with an immense sponge cake, said to be cooked by their own fair hands. The young ladies of this high seat of learning are, no doubt, partisans of Mr. Hendricks' who seems to be a favorite with the gentler sex, and they would like to see that staunch Democrat in the Presidential chair. It was a guileless, girlish plot. The President-elect, being too busy to eat that cake will live...
...well known to necessitate a repetition. We believe that the present game is certainly far from perfect, but we are confident that changes in the rules can and will be made to remedy the existing evils. What the students ask, is an opportunity to try their reforms. A fair opportunity, they think, was not offered them in the fall of '83. Moreover, since then, the circumstances have changed very materially. The need of purifying the game from its objectionable features is much more earnestly felt...
...when it advocated the abolition of the objectionable rules in these words: "Why this boyish rule is maintained is a mystery. Twenty years ago the same puerile arguments now used in advocacy of the foul-bound catch were urged in defense of the catch on the bound of a fair ball, and with just as much reason. If we are to help the batting, we ought to do away with a style of catch that restricts batting. It is bad enough as it is that a batsman should be put out on a catch of a foul fly ball without...
...attention of the shooting men of the college to the movements of their rivals at Yale. From the report of a recent meeting, taken from the Yale News, we learn that a new gun club has been formed among the students of the Sheffield Scientific School, which bids fair to become an important ally, if not a strong rival, to the existing Yale Gun Club. The new sportsman's club starts with a good membership, and under energetic management. It has already secured a complete outfit for shooting, including traps for shotgun, and butts for rifle practice. What...