Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...punting, Harvard was immensely superior. Potter and Felton got off long spirals with the wind, and the ends were so effective in getting down that after the first few attempts at running in Bates always signalled for a fair catch...
When one considers the relative importance of the four major sports and the minor ones, no fair-minded critic will question the right of Cornell's athletes to rank first this year. Yale and Pennsylvania are the only other universities that ever won such high honors in a single year, and when it is considered that Cornell, had some claim to the baseball championship as well, which is here awarded to Princeton, it may be stated that Cornell's 1911 record is just a little bit superior to anything ever done by either Pennsylvania or Yale...
Entries for the athletic events which will be held at the Brockton Fair on October 5 closes today. Blanks may be obtained at the Locker Building or at Hollis 27. There is an entrance fee of 25 cents for each of the following events: '100-yard dash; 220-yard dash; 440-yard run; 120-yard hurdles; 880-yard run; one-mile run; three-mile run, 16-pound shot-put, pole-vault, high jump, running broad jump...
...certain amount of drinking and vice among undergraduates can not be denied. The millenium has not yet arrived. To those who are working faithfully and seriously to build up their own character and the reputation of their alma mater, whether it be Prineton or Yale or Harvard, a fair criticism is never unwelcome. Mere mud, on the contrary, is of all things discouraging. Yet the very possibility of the spreading of such exaggerations, and the harm they do must make clear to the individual student that the fair name of his University rests to no small extent on his shoulders...
...strokes to the minute until the last half-mile; when the stroke was gradually raised, finishing at 36. The time taken was 21 minutes, 53 seconds, which was good, considering the fact that no attempt was made to speed except at the last few strokes. The conditions were fair, the water being smooth and the very last of the ebb running, it being almost slack water. The work of the crew was very satisfactory and especially during the first half-mile in which the Freshmen were rowing. After the Freshmen dropped out the work became a little ragged but improved...