Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...become recognized, however, as an established custom for every class to have their pictures taken, and to this end a photographic committee is selected whose duties, even when ably seconded by the class, are no light burden. Now we ask you, members of '85, is it right or fair to the committee which you have elected, to sit quietly in your rooms and calmly read their notices and then proceed to calmly ignore them? Your pictures must be taken or an old established custom will be given up. The sooner you make your appointments, the better for all concerned, especially...
...Institute of Technology is to have a very large exhibit at the New Orleans fair. The exhibit will consist of specimens of work done by the students in wood and metal turning, in forging and casting, in mechanical, architectural and topographical drawings, manuscript books explaining the systems and methods employed in the various departments of the institution, and many other things too numerous to mention...
...required to run a ball down neatly from one end of the field to the other; the enemy has rather to be dexterously avoided than encountered and overthrown. Still it would be idle to pretend that foot ball is a delicate game, or one to be enjoyed without a fair share of hard blows. given and received. Given and received they were, in that consulship of Plancus which every man loves to talk of, with great equanimity and no complaint. It seems now. however, that this too, with so many other things, has been changed at Eton. Walking through...
...that the audience did not encroach upon the limits of the playing field. What did they do ? Several of them stood aimlessly about at one side of the field and allowed the crowd to jump over the ropes and towards the last of the match even stand within the fair lines so that several times they interfered with players running for fair balls. When appealed to to keep the people back they did so in such a listless, dont-care manner that the crowd paid scarcely any heed to them and did about as it pleased. The treasurer...
...fault but all those who willfully stepped over the ropes stretched expressly to keep the audience within bounds. Everyone knows how emparrassing it is to the players to have people standing close to the field so as to be in the way every time the ball is kicked fair, and, for that reason, the audience were guilty in passing the ropes. We were glad to notice that a very large preportion of transgressors were not students, but there were enough of the latter to make these few words applicable...