Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...charge of the stage setting of the English Play, arrived in Cambridge, yesterday morning and with Mr. Baker made the necessary measurements for the construction of the extension of the stage. Mr. Day expressed himself as satisfied with the possibility of transforming the Sanders Theatre stage into a very fair reproduction of the Elizabethan stage. Mr. Day's interest in this production of the "Silent Woman" is not, as has been stated in the papers, a professional one. He is simply interested in a private way in the development of the stage and of stage architecture and has therefore kindly...
...Bull then closed the debate for the Union. He claimed that few fair comparisons had been made, and quoted Bryce as saying, "Bribery is rare in the United States Senate." Most of his remarks consisted of rebuttal and concluded with an admirable summing up of the arguments for the affirmative. His speaking was noticeable for its ability...
...days ago the Freshman Banjo Club petitioned the Committee on Dramatic and Musical Entertainments for permission to give a concert Monday evening, March 11, at the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, for the benefit of a fair which is to be held there. Yesterday an answer was received from Professor Palmer, chairman of the committee, to the effect that the concert should count as one of the three which the club is always permitted to give. This condition the club was unable to accept, as it would be unfair to the Glee and Mandolin Clubs...
...book, "Uncle Sam's Church," has just appeared which bids fair to have a national success, The author, John Bell Bouton, considers the impossibility of a State religion, and advocates a National Patriotic Cult to take its place. To secure this new patriotism the people must have every day patriotic inspirations. The placing of the Federal Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in every post office, the free distribution by Congress of tracts on the lives of Washington (including his Farewell Address), Adams, Madison and Monroe, is but one of the methods to further this cult. The facilities which congress...
...article by R. W. Emmons is a very practical and straightforward statement of the direction in which football reforms should be made. After a very fair enumeration of the acknowledged evils of football, he points out three lines of reform: (1) Reduction of excessive training; (2) reduction of notoriety, publicity and expenditures; and (3) elimination of the objectionable features of the game itself. The most radical step which he urges is that of limiting admission to games more closely to graduates and undergraduates. "Let college matches," he says, "be college matches, for college people on college grounds...