Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate" discusses the base-ball muddle in all its aspects in a very fair and impartial manner, it seems to us, taking into consideration that the affair is discussed from a Harvard standpoint. Our position here has been such that at times we have felt as injured parties generally do - that we have had the worst of several disputes, and for our voice in the matter we think Yale does not wish to complicate herself in any more schemes which possibly may result to her disadvantage. Sport is broad, and the fairness and impartiality which inspires other branches...
Harvard men will be astonished to learn from the Chicago Herald that the song, "Fair Harvard," was written by the poet Whittier, and first read at the late Harvard jubilee...
...inferior one, and that a new association, composed of better clubs, should be formed, Princeton likewise was discussing, in mass meeting, the project of forming a new league. The college voted to confer unlimited powers upon the base-ball management. So, now, the question is on a fair way to settlement. The old association meets upon Friday of this week, and it is hoped that all the arrangements for the new league will be completed before that time. Action by the management at Princeton is expected...
...game was not at all satisfactory, and it is believed that many of its objectionable features may be removed in the new league. It was urged that last year Columbia had a very good nine, and it is fair to assume that this year she will have a better nine than any one of those which the smaller colleges in the existing league will have. It was also stated that Columbia would enter a league with Harvard and Princeton. So it was moved and carried that it was the sentiment of the meeting that Harvard should withdraw from the Intercollegiate...
...cannot commend too highly the action taken at the mass meeting last evening. Harvard has taken a fair and decided position and has shown that she will not allow her policy to be dictated by the action of any other college. The meeting showed the universal sentiment of the college, that we have gone too far to withdraw, and that a new base-ball association must be formed. At a mass meeting held on Wednesday, Yale voted to empower her delegates to enter any league except a triple one composed of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. When Yale sees the position...