Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thackeray made most of his money out of his lectures. For a long time he found it impossible to "place" " Barry Lyndon," which he always declared to be his masterpiece, and which only began to be appreciated after his death, and the earlier numbers of "Vanity Fair" excited little attention. In the last years of his life Thackeray told a friend of mine that he had never made as much as L5000 by any book he had ever written...
...quarter-mile run there were four entries, among them Wendell Baker, '86, and W. R. Parry of the Moseley Harriers, England. After rounding the first corner Baker took the lead and maintained it to the end, winning easily, in spite of the efforts of Louis, who came in a fair second. Baker's time was 56 3-4 sec. Considering the sharp turns and the fact that he was not pressed this was good time...
...activity in regular training. A man who goes into training can not go on sprees, and must economize and systematize his time in order to both study and train. Having steadied their nerves by hard work of the muscles, many such men settle down to study and often make fair scholars. The system is conducive to the good order of the college, because it furnishes a healthy, interesting topic of conversation out of study hours. 5. The power of the athletic contests to awaken enthusiasm ought not to be held of small account. The tendency of academic life is toward...
...every one to be more careful in future. It is hardly possible to make any rules in this regard, and each student is forced to rely on the courtesy of those who make use of the reading room, to see that every one is given a fair chance to secure any unemployed magazines or periodicals he may desire...
During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers unbosomed himself thus: "Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead...