Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year ago the seeds of the evil which is now being reaped were sown, it is the oversight not the complicity of the CRIMSON which is to blame, that those seeds were allowed to flourish unheeded. It is all the more unfortunate that to-day the element of fair dealing and manliness in Cambridge is compelled to fight its battle with this evil which now has had a year wherein to fasten its grip upon that fair reputation for which in time past Harvard was known and respected everywhere...
Cannot something be done to bring about a return to the old days of fair play to foes ar well as friends...
...last week resolved to try the compound. The nature of the stimulant is yet a dead secret. It is not even known whether it must be applied internally or externally. Suffice it to say that it produced a marvellous effect and the fastest quarter over run on the fair ground track was the result. Little has been said about the trial of the stimulant but the facts were too startling to be suppressed and they are fast leaking...
...fair-sized audience assembled on Holmes Saturday afternoon to witness the annual spring sports. A cold east wind interfered seriously with the contests, and it is greatly to the credit of the men that three of the records were so nearly broken. Cogswell's time in the half-mile run, Wright's in the mile walk, and Merrill's in the bicycle race were all of them so close to the Harvard records that it is safe to say that the records would have gone under more favorable conditions...
Harvard played a fair fielding game in the first part of the game but their batting was very weak. They did not seem to hit the ball squarely and they kept batting it into the air. This proved disasterous with such a fine fielding team as Yale has. Campbell caught remarkably well, and Boyden pitched a good game up to the eighth inning. He was especially effective when there were men on bases. Mumford and Wiestling fielded well. Yale played a wonderful game both at the bat and in the field. Their battery work was about perfect and McConkey...