Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Globe Theatre a good audience witnessed the first presentation in Boston of "the most realistic Military Drama now before the American public," namely, A Fair Rebel. The advertisement may truly describe the play, but only if Shenandoah and Held by the Enemy are considered as out of the field...
...first crew is composed as follows: Simms (stroke), Hagerman, Brewster, Paine, Ferris, Mills, Crosby, Balliet. Hagerman, rowing 7, was on the Cornell crew last year, and, according to the Yale News, gives promise to be a fair one, although he has a number of faults at present. "The general faults of these men," says the News, "are lack of earnestness, complete absence of swing, poor time, and wretched watermanship...
...said that the time of the men is good at full reach, but not on the finish. The men do not sit up high enough, and do not make the last part of the recover of finish firm enough. The crew, however, shows much earnestness and has a very fair idea of beat. The following is a list of the men, with their positions, weights, and mention of their principal faults...
...memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have heard. He could hardly have remembered the "forenoone knell of the great bell," as the church records tell the story, when Edmund Shakspere, in 1607, was buried in St. Saviour's, and when it is fair to suppose that the dead player's brother William was among the mourners. Indeed, this church of St. Saviour's must be reckoned-if we are not too iconoclastic-among the three historic buildings, now standing, which the great dramatist may have seen. These are the Hall of the Middle Temple, where...
...from beginning to end. The cencerto itself was interesting, but not remarkably so. The use of the various instruments did not seem so graceful nor so skillful as is often the case in music of this composer and of others of the French school. It would be hardly fair, however, to judge of the orchestral portion of the work from this one hearing, as the performance was, at times, extremely ragged and lacking in precision. Several times the pianist got ahead of the orchestra. For the work of the pianist herself there can be only praise...