Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is a third method left which is eminently fair as it reduces the element of luck to the minimum. Let the decision be made on the percentage of points won, that is, in the case just cited, the first couple would have won 47 per cent, and the second, 58 per cent. This would really let every couple show what they could do in 48 hands, and it stands to reason that luck would even itself more in 48 than 16 hands...
...Stone '94, has edited an interesting pocket guide entitled, "Chicago and the World's Fair...
...World's Fair athletic grounds will seat 35,000 people, and contain a half-mile oval track, 440 yards with one turn, 220 yards and 300 yards straightaway...
Amherst's exhibit at the World's Fair will occupy two hundred square feet of space, adjoining Harvard's allotment...
There is an article on the proposed intercollegiate regatta at the World's Fair which is interesting and which contains information new to most of us. The author says "The management is making great effort to secure entries from the leading American and English Universities, and hopes for success. The regatta will probably take place in August, late enough to allow Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania crews to recuperate after their annual engagements." The fiction and the poetry of the number are of very much the same nature as usual...