Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ladies' Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York is soon to have a fair, in which an eight-oared shell will be voted to the most popular college. Waters of Troy is now building the shell...
...eventually must be adopted as one of the necessary reforms of the college. The present system of examinations is comparatively worthless. It allows a man to grind up in a single night a whole half year's work, and the result is he remembers just enough to pass a fair examination the next day, and afterwards knows nothing about his subject. It is the exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does not care for the great advantages the college...
...convention of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association that met in New York last week made some wise changes in the constitution of the association and took fair action in respect to the final disposal of the Mott Haven...
...graduates and those members of the faculty who favor the change, we should not get what we asked. One thing is certain-we must not longer be idle. Cannot you, editors of the CRIMSON, at once head a petition which shall ask that our nine be given a fair show in the future...
...writer of the communication published this morning makes a suggestion which is a good one. The faculty has persistently refused to allow our base-ball nines to play against professionals, on the ground that it is degrading to college sport, and to the college spirit of gentlemanliness and fair play. There is no use in our going into a discussion of the subject, for it is one that has been worn smooth. But we do think that a petition, couched in plain but respectful terms and signed by the majority of men in college, might have weight with the faculty...