Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brief summary he declared that the bill was prepared by a laborious committee and introduced by an honest chairman. It contained some provisions good and useful, and some needless, wasteful and badly applied. There was an opportunity for fair debate in the House. The Senate loaded it with amendments, some of them iniquitous, and the House conferees yielded to them. It was passed because a majority of the members were interested in some specific appropriation which could not be obtained without voting the whole bill. The President refused his signature, and thus the bill was lost. It failed because, while...
...book is divided into five parts: Fair Harvard, Life, Love, Youth and Fate, containing poems ranging all the way from topical to sentimental, descriptive to despairing, Part I. is preceded by Dr. Holmes' merry poem, "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," dedicated to the "Advocate" ten years ago, and now reprinted for the first time. This alone would make the book valuable in itself, were it not already made doubly so by a verse of the lamented Loring, who "always mourned and always honored," still keeps his renown as bright as at his untimely death...
Tell me, for that is the rose less fair...
Tell me, for that is the rose less fair...
...guerdon, fair one, for my service done...