Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present do their best to distract the attention of the referee from foul plays of their own side, should not belong to either of the contesting colleges. I think that, if the two judges and the referee were all non-partisan, and all worked in the interest of fair play, the game would no longer be the dangerous and brutal (?) exhibition...
...causing much inconvenience to certain students. It happens to myself, and I suppose to many others, to have lectures three days in the week from 2 to 4 o'clock P. M. There are others who probably have such every day in the week except Saturdays. Now is it fair that we should be debarred from drawing out books at night simply because we have such lectures? To night several of us students were prevented from getting reference books for the night, because we found the library closed. In view of this fact, I should like to make the suggestion...
Last evening the Shakespeare Club held its first public meeting before a fair sized audience of ladies and gentlemen. The President, Mr. Jones, briefly stated that the object of the club was to cultivate the art of speaking in public, and that it was the intention of the club to continue these public meetings at intervals throughout the year. The selections, he said, had been prepared by the speakers without any drill or assistance whatever, on the part of the instructors in elocution...
...given up. In fact the mere notification of postponement is not always considered necessary, never, we believe, by the Yale freshman. So at last the prolific excuse-making Yale freshmen have found an excuse which the whole world will be only too ready to acknowledge perfectly just and fair. And yet we cannot but wonder at the apparent disappearance of Yale enthusiasm. "Where," will be asked, "is that interest in athletics of which Yale is so proud?" Why was there any doubt as to the gate receipts? Can Harvard indifference have found a foothold at New Haven...
...Yale freshmen have acted in a strange manner about our class game would be putting it mildly indeed. We feel that we have not had a fair deal in this matter, and, what is more. Yale can in no way justify her position. On the matter of choosing a date, we had absolutely no choice. Saturday, Nov. 15 and the morning of the day before Thanksgiving were the only times Yale would even think of playing. About three days before the 15th, we received a telegram saying, "Will play Saturday or not at all." This was the first hint...