Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice yesterday was sharp and with a fair amount of snap. In the game with Brown tomorrow the nine will probably have the above make...
...that this is asking much of the Tennis Association, but we believe that, if the athletics of the University are looked upon as a whole, this postponement will be seen to do more harm than good. On the other hand, if the members of the Tennis Association are so fair-minded as to appreciate the situation and to relieve the present need, the baseball men owe it to them to make no attempt to keep Jarvis beyond the present season...
...seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds of dew on Cambridge grass-blades as on their famous cousins of Mount Hermon. These autumn trees of ours that seem to have caught and kept the sunset in their branches till it looks as if a western evening-cloud had stretched itself in Fresh Pond meadows, are too ordinary...
...things are now? The prime cause of all the trouble is that nobody has been appointed to coach the freshmen regularly. I understand from those competent to know what sort of material there is in the freshman class, that several experienced players have not been given a fair chance this whole spring. With a good coach such a mistake could not happen...
...last crew in position is considered an advantage, and the manaeuvres to secure this advantage make the race indefinitely late. There is no profit in this. It is not to the advantage of any crew to make the race late, but simply to be later than the others. As fair a chance is given for ingenuity to gain an advantage if the race is set for five and rowed at five, as if the race is set for five and rowed at six; only if one captain is tardy, he forces all the rest to be tardy also...