Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was very fair skating yesterday on Glacialis...
...Venus Victrix" of the same author, and in this, perhaps, lies its chief fault. It should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...
...about as correct as that divinity-school estimate of the college quadrangle. Harvard would be rich if she were not ambitious. Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain, but only the good begining of something which they intend to make better. Harvard is still growing. It has a future as well as a past, and the most remarkable things about its life to-day is the pluck, the true grit...
...more cordial state of feeling between Harvard and Yale in athletic matters. This attempt was urged by men who had the interests of Harvard and of Yale at heart. Time and consideration were devoted by them to the attainment of the object in view, and there seemed to be fair reasons to believe that success would come in the venture. The Advocate and the CRIMSON joined in this movement and strenuously insisted on admittedly authentic information before anything of an adverse nature was even considered by them. The result was favorable. The Yale and Harvard base-ball teams...
...tackled by Goldthwaite. Yale had the ball down, but Nichols broke through and secured it. Crane gained forty yards by a kick, but the ball went outside and Yale got it. Bride kicked and Cumnock got the ball. Then Weld punted over and Yale made a fair catch. Harvard got the ball and good rushes were made by Clark and Goldthwaite, but a foul gave it to Yale. Harvey, Yale's halfback, fumbled, and Goldthwaite dropped on the ball. For five minutes Harvard had the ball at Yale's ten-yard line, but failed to score, and finally lost...