Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting of the Amherst Senate, President Seelye reported that the faculty had agreed with the senate in interpreting the constitution to include under its jurisdiction all undergraduates, whether in regular standing or not. The senate voted to recommend to the college that some fair athletic event be substituted for the class rushes, which have always been attended with more or less serious accidents...
...Back Bay Minstrel Club, of Boston, will give an entertainment in Union Hall, on the evening of Jan. 3rd, 1888. The entertainment bids fair to be a success, musically and financially, and deserves the support of the public since the proceeds are to be devoted to charitable objects...
...good speed. It is therefore no more than just to the Cambridge people, who could easily put a stop to all running in the streets if they wished, that all the men should run on one street, and leave the others for the Cambridge people who certainly have a fair right to them. North avenue is the best street in Cambridge for running on, having as it does broad, smooth side-walks as far as any one is likely to run. And since this street has been tacitly conceded for the use of students, let all who wish...
Hour examinations are now in vogue. These irritations, more disagreeable than their semi-annual prototypes, have grown in fashion during this year and now bid fair to become a characteristic of all the larger and many of the less numerous courses. These examinations are out of accord with the tendency of study at Harvard, and mark retrogression to the days of term examinations and required studies. Many lazy ones are caught in the trap, but we fail to see what good accrues to them by the operation, while for those who are working earnestly a deviation from good work...
...from the members, and consequently the most rigid economy is necessary. It is hoped that the Deutscher Verein will find it for its advantage to use the room also for their meetings and so the expense would be less felt. To all those men in college who have a fair knowledge of French and who would take an interest in the society, an appeal is made to send in their names as candidates for election...