Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...takes place during the first week in March. Dartmouth intends then to make an effort to re-enter the league. This is one of the original league colleges, and since its students devote themselves to baseball to the almost entire exclusion of other athletic games, it has generally a fair team, at least; and it seems a pity that it should be thought necessary to exclude Dartmouth from the league. The Harvard baseball team of 1882, complained of ill treatment the last time they played at Hanover; on the other hand, gentlemen who witnessed the game assert that a member...
...that after leaving college a man will never either sit in a shell or take part in a game of ball. Within easy reach of all our large cities, however, may be had good hunting, and he who had in his college days become a fair wing shot and acquired a taste for shooting will find open to him during his vacation a never ending means of enjoyment. Nothing will more refresh an overworked mind and body than a day spent with that zest which only a sportsman knows, after snipe and ducks in the marsh, or among woody haunts...
...view of abolishing professionalism, would meet with but little opposition among the students. In view of this, although we are not prepared to admit the expediency of this rule, we waive all objection to it for the present, and will willingly unite with the Faculty in giving it a fair trial. We do not believe it wise, however, to endanger this fair trial of an experiment, in which we are all interested, by loading it down with other and foreign restrictions, which we believe to be opposed to the best interests of athletics...
...batting records of the North Western College League have been published, and they average among the fair and good batsmen higher than our records. This is most likely due to an inferiority in the pitchers...
...games the students favored. Columbia said that after a student left the college grounds, the faculty had no control over him; it was true the faculty sent a representative to the convention of the faculties, and it was thought to be in favor of the resolutions, yet it was fair enough to state openly that it had little right to assume much control over affairs outside of the campus and which did not seriously interfere with college duties. Cornell's representative said the faculty would ascertain the feeling of the students before taking action; the students were strongly opposed...