Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been sound that there is no limit to the amount of property Cornell may hold, and the money bequeathed by the late D. B. Fair-weather will probably be accepted...
Calmly considered, after the lapse of a year, Harvard's contention appears to have been a fair one. It was only her action which stopped all the colleges on the headlong path to professionalism dong which they were plunging. Harvard held that leagues were responsible for half the evils of athletics, because they forced an unreal "championship" upon the competing colleges, which came to be more valued than the game itself. They furnished the basis for mean trading, disreputable contentions and continual bickering which reflected much discredit on college athletics. It is not necessary to cite instances; the history...
...through a brief dumb bell exercise, and take a short run. It is too early for much criticism of the men. There are not many heavy men among the candidates; the old crew however, was a pretty heavy set. The body work of the crews has been fair but when they took the oars yesterday, it all seemed to disappear...
...Englishman and an American write on arbitration and on the future of warfare, and it is Sir Lyon Play fair, belonging to the nation which, with its "hearts of oak" and mighty ironclads, has ever ruled the waves, who advocates peace, while Captain Zalinski, of the commercial republic, is the prophet of warfare...
...success. From the moment the three hundred men who were present entered the great dining room, saw the pig skin hanging from the chandelier inscribed with the legend Harvard 12. Yale 6, gave cheer after cheer for the men who have at last brought victory to the crimson till Fair Harvard was sung and the dinner was over, the spirti of Harvard enthusiasm seemed only to grow till by its presence it made last night's dinner the mark of a newera in our athletics...