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Word: fairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those men who have made arrangements which will cause a longer absence than three days, to consult with the Dean at once and give in full their reasons for the vacation they propose taking. Some trouble may be avoided by following this advice. In any case, students have a fair warning of the intentions of the faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/27/1888 | See Source »

...uniformly bad weather the efforts of the Athletic Association to interest some of the new men in the hare and hounds runs have been discouraging. The interest is not nearly so active as was expected. But the bicycle club has been more successful in its runs, in which a fair number have participated. Weare '90 S., has charge of the men on their semi-weekly runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 11/21/1888 | See Source »

...poorest games this fall, but there can be but little doubt that they were clearly out matched. The best of good luck could not possibly have changed the final result of the game. The Princeton rush line was superior to ours, and the backs could not get a fair chance to do any brilliant playing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/19/1888 | See Source »

...Here is a showing especially annoying in the absence of great dispute that Harvard affords the widest and most thorough opportunities for students in America. Fair minded people, I think, do not hesitate to accept the idea that Harvard has more educational advantages than Yale to offer, although they may question whether the student is as much pressed into accepting them. Her faculty, system of instruction, library, and tone of surrounding give her an unequalled and always increasing educational value, and no person would pass her by as insufficient in an academic aspect. That her numbers do not increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Athletic Decadence. | 11/14/1888 | See Source »

...Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although the and ??? theories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review. | 11/13/1888 | See Source »

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