Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor William M. Sloan, of Princeton, the American representative on the International Committee in charge of the Olympic games, to be held at Athens next spring, reports such great interest in this country that it bids fair that a team from the different athletic clubs and colleges will be sent to compete in the different events...
...gown bids fair to be incorporated in the unwritten constitution of the College. The notice which the chairman of the Class Day Committee gives this morning makes a due allowance for any objection which might possibly be raised in view of the fact that the custom is only a few years old and has not been sanctioned by any vote of the class. We believe however, that the cap and gown will not be opposed this year. They seem to meet the desired end of giving to the seniors and other candidates for degrees an appropriate, distinctive and graceful uniform...
...clubs will be slightly larger this year than in former years, inasmuch as the consideration of extra traveling expenses will not have to be counted in. Besides the fall concert, concerts have been arranged for December 11, at Lowell; December 13, at New Bedford; and December 16, at a fair in Boston. The Pierian Sodality will also take part in the Lowell concert...
...also, as we understand it, one of the principal features of the plan that graduates in Cambridge, whether temporarily or as residents, would make use of the club. Thus both graduates and undergraduates would be brought into occasional intercourse with each other and it would be fair to hope that a greater unity of feeling arising between them as Harvard men would strengthen their common attachment for the University...
...influences that threatened for awhile to abolish the game altogether on account of acknowledged evils which had been incident to it, gave way to the honest assurances of its friends that these evils were only incidental, that they were not inseparably connected with the game, and that a fair trial this year would show that football could still be played by college students and gentlemen...