Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman nine played a very fair fielding game against the Cambridge High and Latin schools team yesterday afternoon on Norton's Field. Ninety-three's batting, however, was weak. In the last inning, with three men on bases, the freshmen had a good chance to win the game, but a questionable decision of the umpire gave Cambridge a decided advantage. The score...
...what of the courses in Analytical Chemistry, I which are described as "chiefly laboratory work," and which take twice six hours? With only a single division into courses and half courses, it is impossible to give more credit for Chemistry 5 than for Chemistry 2; but it is only fair to designate in some way the requirements of the courses, so that a man will not find himself at this time of the year with hard courses growing harder and laboratory work robbing him of the time he ought to spend in recreation in the open...
...London Vanity Fair says: "Rev. Carrie Bartlett has been appointed incumbent of the town of Kalamazoo in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Harvard, and a great personal beauty...
Rule 34-"If a fair catch be not made, the ball shall go to the opponents at the spot where it first strikes the ground...
...games thus far have been merely for practice and for the sake of giving the captain the opportunity of trying all his men, and of seeing who are best suited for a place on the nine. Unless every candidate who is promising given a fair chance to show his ability, the captain fails utterly to manage the nine in such a way that the best team will be chosen, and in such a way that the outcome of the season will be most successful...