Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thus all obligation to Yale was discharged in the acceptance of the challenge. But the result of last year's race, - I hear some one saying. Are we responsible for that? are the conditions of wind and tide at New London in Harvard's power? Yale had as fair a chance as was possible with three boats in the race. Harvard gave her an opportunity to defeat our crew; Yale failed; must we keep giving her opportunities...
...probably be one of the trainers when he returns to college. The most promising men in addition to those above mentioned are Hardenburg, of '88; Burt of '87; and Buchanan, Corbin and Wells, of '89. Stewart, of the class of '88, who stroked the practice crew, stands a pretty fair chance of receiving a place on the crew...
...fact is, that for a German professor ordinarus or well-established extraordinarius with fair prospect of a successful career, the American university salary will offer no possible attraction; and the reason is not far to seek. It may lie partly, to be sure, in the natural disinclination to expatriation so notably characteristic of the German official as well as military and aristocratic class, especially in so far as expatriation is supposed to involve retirement from the arena of advanced investigation. This explanation is, however, unnecessary. The German professor is decidedly better off financially than the American; and we shall deceive...
...known in the last seventeen years have been, at entrance, quite deficient in serious aims. But from this fact I draw a conclusion quite opposite to the one suggested. It is systematized election, which these boys need. Prescription says, "This person is unfit to choose keep him so;" laissez-faire says, "If he is unfit to choose let him perish;" but a watchful elective system must say, "Granting him to be unfit, if he is not spoiled, I will fit him." At Harvard, methods of furnishing information are pretty fully developed. In May an elective paphlet is issued, which announces...
...number opens with a thrilling story, "Tales of the Octagon Club," told in a wonderfully realistic manner. It is weak in some parts, but this is more than counterbalanced by the strength and vividness of the rest. The "Daily Themes" are fair, but not extraordinary. "A Vacation Episode," is a bright little story that is certainly worthy of more than one reading; it is very amusing and well-told...