Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaking in competition of the Boylston Prizes last evening was interesting and the contest was certainly a close one. Notwithstanding the fact that the award of prizes excited the annual comment it was an eminently fair one. When consideration is given to the basis upon which the award of prizes was evidently made no other bestowal of the prizes could have been just. Natural ness was without question the most notable and most admirable in these speakers who met the approval of the gentlemen who acted as judges. Mr. Page and Mr. Knowles certainly spoke in a manner worthy...
...fair to say that the visiting team were handicapped by lack of practice at clay birds, as it is their custom to shoot live pidgeons. They have also been practicing at open traps, and were considerably bothered by the screen used on the Harvard grounds...
Owing to a whim on the part of Harvard's faculty, amateur rowing has received no encouragement of late, and the crimson has paled before colleges of more enterprise. But let it be understood that fair Harvard has been selected to uphold the honor of the nation in a friendly contest, and this lukewarm feeling will give place to enthusiasm, and there will be such a revival in aquatic sports as America has never seen...
Yesterday morning the Crimsons opened the season with the Volunteers and were victorious by a score of 16 to 5. The Crimsons bid fair to equal their record of last year at the bat, but are much weaker in their base-running than formerly...
...play ball in a more gentlemanly way than most amateur clubs, they might at least be willing to bring forward the subject once more, and give an opportunity to the students who feel strongly in regard to the matter to present their view of the case that a fair discussion of the merits of the question...