Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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AMHERST 9, HARVARD 8.Notwithstanding the rain, a fair sized audience assembled yesterday afternoon to see our nine defeated by Amherst. The day was as bad as it could be, cold and windy, with a drizzling rain. Amherst came to the bat first, and by errors of Phillips and Crocker, a wild pitch and two terrific hits by Sullivan and Stewart, succeeded in making four runs, three of them earned. For Harvard, after Coolidge fouled out, Baker took his base on Gardener's muff of Taylor's throw, stole second, and came home on a passed ball. Phillips, who had taken...
Another heart is moved in a slightly different way. This one makes use of a glowing imagination, and produces the following lines to some fair lady...
Without the slightest wish to be officious in any way, we tender our sincere congratulations to the fair unknown, that the author of the verse is not a "little bird," and has not "two little wings," nor three, nor four little wings either as some birds apparently have, and that "it cannot be." It is possible that we mistake the poet's meaning in this verse, but really, we have not been able to discover any, and so had to invent one for ourselves...
This is a very fair specimen of gloom of another kind than that used by the "sea" poets. It has the weirdness and ghastliness of a silly ghost story told in full daylight, and produces about as much real effect on the hearer...
This method of playing the games has not only the advantage of "facts" in reality, but it is based on the common principles of honor as well. This has been our only claim, and we firmly believe that this method is the only fair and manly basis on which the base-ball games can ever be played. It will be well when this idea becomes firmly fixed in all contests between colleges, to strive to make them as fair as possible instead of endeavoring to gain all the advantage which can be taken from an adversary...