Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Most of them were new men, but all are fair oarsmen and some promise to be exceptionally good ones. A meeting of the boating men in college was held recently and the prospects of the coming year were discussed. Captain Stevenson explained his plans for training and laid out work for this fall...
...bias of the individual, the sport in which he is engaged and the time devoted to it. There is, however, a general development which distinguishes the athletic from the nonathle ic class. Knowing as we do, the influence of physical activity upon the development of the individual, it is fair to presume that a like influence will be exerted on the development of a class...
...Wesleyan, Beattys, the captain and quarter-back, Manchester and Slayback, did good work. As to Harvard, the whole team should have the credit of playing good foot-ball. If the men continue to do conscientious work, there is no reason why we should not have a fair chance to beat Yale and Princeton...
...chances are fair, nothing more. Our improvement has been very great, but it must not be forgotten that our inferiority to Princeton and Yale was likewise great, and that much abor had to be accomplished and put us in a class which could compete with these. This has been accomplished. Everything which is learned from now on ought to make our chances even of winning at least one of the games. We can look forward to this, and from all appearances there is little to make us discouraged for our contest with Yale, even if beaten by Princeton...
...plastic mind. The personality of the author is thrust for ward rather more than propriety or good taste would allow in an article of this kind. Without wishing to be cynical, I find considerable presumption in its spirit. The talents of the writer give promise for a very fair future, but let him delay the publication of his autobiography until the world may fairly be assumed to be more anxious...