Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first place the motives for this change are to give the men of University calibre the benefit of a more concentrated practice; second, to obviate the discouraging influence on a man of less ability of cutting him from the squad before he really has had a fair chance...
...Music has been inconvenienced and even gravely, hampered, however, because it lacked a suitable centre in which to concentrate the numerous courses and activities under its direction. The noisy location and diminutive proportions of Holden Chapel manifestly unfit it for being such a centre. It can with a fair degree of comfort accommodate 85 students, while some music courses contain an enrollment of over 120. The assurance of a new adequate Music Building where Harvard musical traditions may be fitly maintained and raised even to a higher level of fame is a source of congratulation to all Harvard...
Entries for scrub hockey will close this evening at 6 o'clock. Positively no further extension of the time can be made, today being the last opportunity for entering. Though a fair number of men have already pledged themselves to participate, it is hoped that many more will find it possible to sign the blue-books at Leavitt & Peirce's before tonight...
...articles, one on "The Liberty Tree," by George H. Seldes, and the other on "And the Band Will Play 'Fair Harvard' to the Tune of 'Up the Street'" leave one in a decidedly optimistic mood with respect to the present as compared with the historic Harvard. Not only have the football songs improved in quality, but the class day celebrations and other festivities have largely lost their bestiality...
...further fact that many of them do not smoke ten-cent cigars at all and a large proportion of them are total abstainers. That such liberal allowance should be made for items not found at all among the expenditures of many seems, therefore, a sad misconception of a fair average. An alleged expenditure of $25 for cigars and cigarettes and $18 for liquors annually, certainly among the self-supporting and temperate, has no basis in fact as an "average figure...