Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Athletics are now pretty well back on a pre-war basis. Harvard should have, along with the chance of beating Yale and Princeton, an opportunity for the championship. A game with any one of such teams as Cornell, Pennsylvania, or Colgate would accomplish this result. It is only fair to the College that the football management should do this...
...score-board dates back to 1900, when Arthur Irwin, former scout of the New York American Baseball Club, and now with Rochester, wishing to lessen the difficulty which the spectators had in following the play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At that time forward passes were unheard of and mass plays with flying wedges were relied on for results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then...
...strictness. Every applicant will be held personally responsible for the tickets allotted to him, and if these tickets are sold or offered for sale at a premium he will be blacklisted. The rules relating to speculation and to personal use of tickets are both equally necessary to secure a fair distribution among those applicants who wish personally to attend the game. Violations of either rule deprive other applicants of their rights, and should be and are liable to the same penalty...
...That is why for their own selfish interest, these foreigners discourage opera in English, discourage American singers, deny to young American voices a fair chance, and seek only to strengthen the strangle hold that aliena now have upon the production of opera in this country, where opera pays the largest rewards of any country in the world...
...order to give all former service men whose insurance has lapsed or been canceled, a fair chance to reinstate their insurance, including men who have been out of the service eighteen months or more, and who are therefore barred from reinstatement under the former ruling, a special blanket ruling is made which allows all ex-service men to reinstate their insurance before December 31, 1919, provided that each applicant is in as good health as at date of discharge or at expiration of the grace period, which ever is the later date, and so states in his application. Of course...