Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...without any outrageous demonstration, it is, and ought to be, considered a good quality. To treat a victorious or team from a rival college cordially or courteously, without showing any pique or ill feeling, is most creditable, and tends to make all intercourse between the two colleges manly and fair. The great evil of indifference, however, is shown by the elements of which the various Harvard teams are composed. Only men who have been noted for good playing, or rowing, when at school attempt to gain positions on any of our teams, and a large majority of such...
...present when one thinks of the many victories gained by the ball teams that it has contributed toward the college's athletic standing. Among many suggestions, one, the turning the building into a swimming bath, ought to receive careful consideration at the hands of the faculty. A fair-sized bath might be made in the building at not a great expense as the shape of the building is not of any material hindrance. The site is not a bad one for such a purpose, and while a swimming bath connected with the new gymnasium might be somewhat more convenient...
...that the game would accordingly be played in New Haven on the 31st of this month. This seems to us a most satisfactory outcome of the bickering that have been going on between the two colleges all this spring. It puts the games for the future on a perfectly fair and honorable basis, and makes an end of all trouble as to when and where they shall be played...
Harvard faced Yale Saturday upon Jarvis field to play off the annual championship game in the lacrosse series. The day was very warm and seemed more like the middle of July than the end of June. About three o'clock a fair sized audience, including a considerable sprinkling of ladies, had assembled on and around the field, and at about twenty minutes past the hour the ball was faced. Roundy drew the ball out of the scrimmage and sent it towards Yale's goal. Next, it came quickly back towards Harvard's defence, but was rushed out and kept...
...game, Doron, Seagrave and Wadsworth leading. Seagrave made a superb catch of a long fly in the seventh. They failed to hit Vinslow to any extent except in the fifth inning, when they batted him all over the field. Durfee, Shedd and Clark led the batting. Harvard played a fair game in the field. Allen played superbly, and Coolidge and LeMoyne did well. The nine play in Princeton tomorrow, let us hope with more success. The umpiring was unsatisfactory...