Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The avowed purpose of the English department is not to produce individual writers or to foster phenomenal genius, but to aid every man, however poor his capabilities in that direction may be, to a fair command of English. Now, a regulation has appeared which refuses admittance to English 12, one of the most practical and useful courses in the English department, to any man who shall have fallen below a certain grade in English B; a grade which many a conscientious student may fail to reach by need of that very training which is thus forbidden...
...none of the Boston papers have printed a detailed account of the Yale-Pennsylvania football game, it is thought that a short description of it might be of interest to our readers, as it give a very fair idea of the strength of the Yale team...
...give promise of being valuable acquisitions to the team. They are both good runners and dodgers, but neither has acquired much proficiency in kicking the ball. Morrison who played half-back last year will play in the same position. He is a good kicker and a fair runner although slow in getting started. Besides those above mentioned Robinson, Wurtemburg, Clawson and one or two others have played at different times on the team in practice games...
...practice pull, it would be a good thing, but it has ceased to be that. It has become a hard, stubborn fight and presupposing that the Yale race is no walk-over, no eight men can pull the four miles the second time in one week, with a fair prospect for success. The boat club would do well to take advice from '88 and so increase still more the chances of victory over our friends from New Haven...
...appear to us to deserve the hearty support of all members of the University. In regard to the first, which urges the faculty to permit our nine to practice with professional teams, in view of the fact that other colleges do so, we wish to press this as a fair claim. Our position in this matter is that there is no reason why the Harvard nine should be placed at so uncalled for a disadvantage as it is by the present prohibition. If the faculty is firmly set against professional practice, then they ought to show the courage of their...