Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greater objection, is the impossibility of procuring a judge competent in all cases to judge fairly. He has too many men and styles to watch. One judge, on first seeing a man walk may disqualify him for a gait that another judge has come to consider as fair. R. S. Hale is an example of this, he being taken off the track in the intercollegiate games, yet allowed to walk in the Yale-Harvard games...
...fact it was not only poor foot-ball, but a disgraceful exhibition, for holding, off-side play and slugging were constant and evident. It is a little ungrateful, perhaps, to criticize harshly officials who act out of kindness to the captains of the class teams, but it is only fair to the men who played to say that there would have been no temptation for their forgetting themselves as far as they did if the umpire had promptly, from the start, put a stop to all unfair play. When men find that they can play off-side, hold and slug...
This friendly statement expresses exactly Harvard's present attitude. Princeton decided not to accept the proposal, doubtless because of the existing relations with the intercollegiate association. Harvard men will recognize this as perfectly fair...
Princeton made a proposal to play on any Saturday in November that Harvard might prefer. This was fair as regarded Harvard and Pinceton, but would have excluded Harvard from all the Thanksgiving games, and would have placed her at a disadvantage as to her games with Yale...
...note with pleasure the energy with which the Shooting Club has begun its work this fall. It is very desirable that we win the match with Yale this year and we are in a fair way to do so if the interest already taken in the club be kept up. This year we understand the number of candidates is fairly large, though the officers still hope that there are new men in college who can shoot, and will enter their names with the others. Practice shoots will come off this fall twice each week, while last year only...