Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hesitate to claim the superiority of the leather ball over the rubber one. The former, besides retaining the air better, can be kicked both farther and straighter, and will last a much longer time. In setting forth the advantages of the Rugby rules and ball, we only ask a fair, impartial hearing from the Association. The fact that Harvard has played the game for the last year or so should be no obstacle to its adoption. The rules themselves, not the College, should be criticised. If the other colleges could witness a good game played according to the Rugby rules...
...Nine played a practice game with the Boston Nine on the Boston grounds, Wednesday afternoon. The game was perhaps the best the Nine has played this season. Their batting record was good and the fielding fair, considering that they played against a professional club. Dwyer, '77, was tried behind the bat, and up to the fourth inning he caught very well, but, being struck in the temple by a foul tip, he was obliged to retire, and Thatcher caught during the rest of the game. The score is as follows...
Thus the result of the entire system is that those men who bid fair to be our more prominent writers and thinkers are induced to exercise themselves more in writing and thinking than less promising students, who will seldom need to do more than write business letters. Of course, there are many men who do not use any of these means of education, for even a theme may be bought for a few dollars; still it is through no fault of our system that men remain awkward in expressing themselves. That many of our best writers are willing to make...
...sinking into the slough of debt. It would seem that it is almost entirely through Mr. Blakey's generosity that the clubs will have boats for their crews to-morrow. When the present system was founded, in order to insure him what the originators of the plan considered a fair profit, he was guaranteed two hundred members, each paying $15 a year, in return for which he has provided boats enough to allow one third of the members to row at the same time. As there is an impression that he is in some way making an inordinate profit...
...Well, yes, very fair; I don't think that it would amount to much without Lillian Conway...