Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result would be that the democarts would hold all the offices even under a republican administration. The republicans wish to extend the civil service laws and thus secure fair play for both parties...
...crises-cross" trick carried the ball to the four-yard line and Cranston rushed it over the goal-line in thirty-three minutes. No goal. Score, Harvard 8, Yale 0. Yale forced the ball ten yards from the twenty-five-yard line and then punted. Wadsworth having a fair catch in the center of the field passed the ball to Harding who gained five yards. Rushes by Dennison, Wadsworth, Lee, Harding and Newell forced the ball close to the line and Cranston again carried it over. No goal. Brooks got the ball from the try at goal and scored another...
...following clipping from the Herald of yesterday, is a fair estimate of the opinion held by the Boston newspaper world in regard to the recent Harvard-Yale foot-ball episode...
...management, having been obliged to forfeit the championship game then offered to play an exhibition game in Cambridge. This concession was met with the surly reply, "We cannot consider the question of an exhibition game." What may be the reasons of the Yale management for this rejection of a fair offer, we can only conjecture. If it is because she wishes to humiliate Harvard she has wasted her discourtesy. If it is because she does not need the financial aid which an exhibition game would give her, she is better off than we has reason to think...
...interests of fair play we are sorry that this thing has happened. But at all events our management is clearly absolved from all blame in the matter. They have acted as fairly and reasonably as their dignity and the necessity of the case would allow. They could scarcely allow themselves to be unjustly trampled upon...