Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scientific school are not counted, nor are those of special students. The students in the Lawrence Scientific School are so few that it matters little whether they are counted or not; but as Harvard this year registers nearly if not quite 100 new special students, it would be fair, according to the Yale method of computation, to call the entering class at Cambridge over 400 strong. The exact figures cannot of course be known until after the pending examinations are completed. If any material increase is made this year in the number of students in the Harvard professional schools...
...intending to study medicine. A rumor to this effect started in the Medical School last spring and soon spread among the college men who were interested in the subject. At first it was thought to have no foundation, but it now seems to have had good authority, and bids fair to be carried out before another year...
...opposing elevens. Harry Beecher is doing his old-time work as quarter-back. He is as quick as a cat and as strong as a moose. He is the captain of the team, and as such is well liked by all the men, from whom he bids fair to get the best work of which they are capable...
Only a short, desultory practice was indulged in yesterday as the weather was damp and cold. The ground was in very fair condition and showed the effect of careful attention during the summer. It is too soon yet to know whether there is any base-ball talent in '91, and it may be well to say here that every freshman who has played ball to any extent, should take the first opportunity of going to the field and practicing with the rest of the candidates. Rumor says that there are several very good players in the incoming class...
...Society was organized in March, 1882, being the outgrowth of discussions in the college papers and at public meetings upon the prevailing high prices of students' necessaries. The need of an organization that could furnish many goods at prices only slightly above first cost, and many others at fair retail prices, was so generally felt in college that there was not wanting sufficient enthusiasm to start, at once, a store partially stocked, and managed by directors chosen from the students and instructors, the Directors providing plans for work and a business manager. From a very small beginning the business...