Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Deus nobis, - which in lingua vernacula significes "May Fortune and the Faculty favor the sons as they have their fathers." Yesterday we published the first of a series of articles recalling the victories and defeats and hard-won fights of the various notable athletic teams which have represented Fair Harvard on flood and field in bygone days. The compiler of these historical potpourris has many a curious legend to tell, - of how that famous crew of 185 - , or was it 186, - when hard pressed by her mighty opponents on Lake Winnipiseogee, and almost swamped by the mighty sea and threatening...
...last to be favored with a minstrel show, the only genuine "Mammoth Minstrels." The arrangements are being made and the fair will take place the evening of March 8th. The funds accruing will be put into the treasury of the "Town Tennis Association." We have abundant talent for the undertaking and a thorough-going success is predicted...
...were the days of chivalry, and ??? players were amply rewarded by the rustling of a blind or the raising of a sash. Not infrequently the Sodality serenaded the wrong house, as when they uttered their sweet music to the attentive ears of Judge X's servant-maids while his fair daughters were at Judge Y's dance...
...less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities...
...nine, handsome memorials of the services they rendered. It will be remembered that the cups presented to last year's freshman crew were purchased from the surplus money of the nine, which was very generously handed over by the nine for that purpose; and it is only fair that the class should now come forward and help carry out the good work that has been begun...