Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other object than to incite a spirit of emulation among its members, and we have no doubt that the Faculty, by a juster distribution of them, and by an enlargement of their scope, will increase their efficiency. It is difficult to conceive of an objection to a just and fair acknowledgment to any student for what he has done, irrespective of what he has left undone, except it come from one who in the midst of plenty cannot enjoy it unless those around him are starving. But such a spirit can never be the fruit of the liberalizing tendency...
DEAR JIM, - As you were kind enough to ask me in your last letter for some account of my life here, I will give it to you, with a fair warning that you brought it on yourself...
...which relieves him from the slavery and loss of time required by enforced attendance at recitations, and we shall be much surprised if a faithful performance of duty does not justify the confidence which the Faculty has reposed in the class. At all events, this regulation must have a fair trial, and we should like to know by what right a professor undertakes to annul or abridge this privilege, or to threaten students with conditions, merely because they avail themselves of a right granted by the Faculty ? We had supposed that professors, as well as undergraduates, are amenable...
...been objected to a general system of eleemosynary scholarships, that, under conditions which are found in America, it is impossible to make a fair selection of those who should be encouraged to compete for them. The reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property...
...labor of the year was lightened somewhat by a season of festivity, occurring about the middle of the year, and lasting several days, called the Semmi-Anualls. The amusements, which were varied, remind one somewhat of a country fair of the present day. In the Bodleian is preserved a tattered and dingy pamphlet, in which the exercises are designated by mysterious combinations of letters and numerals, and are briefly described. After much study I have deciphered a part of it. As each student kept at least one horse, racing was one of the chief amusements, and the list of races...