Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pennell. They have three first-class men, Page in the high jump, Faines in the mile run, and Kohler in the bicycle race. Several other candidates are promising well, and some of the most sanguine spirits think that Pennsylvania's chances for the inter-collegiate cup this year are fair to say the least...
Many customs that formed prominent features in the old-time student life of Harvard have gradually been dropped and forgotten, and not a few of them merited the disuse into which they have fallen. One custom, however, which seems in a fair way to become extinct is worthy a better fate. It is extremely strange that our undergraduates should have abandoned so enjoyable a custom as that of singing in the yard. Old graduates express the utmost surprise when told that student singing is very seldom heard in the yard, and recall with pleasure their own college days, when...
...state of feeling that exists here, if to "revival" we must give the common newspaper meaning. Still on the part of many members of the college greater interest in matters of a religious character has been awakened, and with it has come a desire to give religious subjects a fair and candid consideration. The question of religion is a question that every man must decide for himself. Indifference to it, as to the important questions of the day, is inconsistent with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those...
...warm, almost sultry weather of the last few days again arouses thoughts about the lack of general interest in rowing. There are now in the boat-house a fair number of pair-oared working boats, which are not used from one season to another. Although the Charles is not the most pleasing of waters on which a young man may exercise his muscle with the oars, yet the river is not so bad after all, and surely there ought to be awakened among our undergraduates a greater desire for universal excellence in boating. There are a few private shells...
...great journal denounces Cambridge as a nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...