Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...William H. Mills, '80, and Robert Luce, '82, are soon to begin the publication of a new journal, "The Writer," a monthly magazine, to interest and help all literary workers. The subscription is to be but $1 a year, and the magazine bids fair to take a permanent place among the other monthlies of the present time...
...contest, there is one man of a member of the junior class who also figures upon the University Tug-of-War Team. It seems to me that, beside being in direct opposition to the established precedent of the college in the case of other athletic organizations, this is hardly fair. In making up the nines, crews and teams which shall represent the college in all intercollegiate sports, we pick out the best material we can find in the college as a whole, irrespective of class lines. Whenever a man shows marked ability or peculiar aptitude for any particular form...
Spring is actually close at hand and Holmes' field has almost lost its icy coating. In fact, it is very probable that within a week the field will be ready for use. Jarvis, being on a slightly higher level, is already in fair condition and was used yesterday for the first time. This is a late spring and our teams are heavily handicapped thereby - since all the rival colleges have been practicing out of doors for some time. We are informed that it is within the memory of man (i.e., Tom O'Hara) when Jarvis was in daily...
...first Winter Meeting occurs today, and bids fair to be more interesting than in former years, on account of the transfer of part of the sparring to this day. This meeting is sometimes tedious, on account of the great number of events on the programme. The only way to make these events interesting is to make them as short and exciting as possible...
...interesting and well written. However, the reader is made to feel through this reply now insignificant the whole question at issue is. It seems, to use Col. Higginson's own words, that "a mere obiter dictum is taken up" and made too much of. On the whole the fair-minded reader must acknowledge that Mr. Hamerton has not gotten the upper hand in the discussion. In fact, it is astonishing that he does not employ more strict logic in refuting the charges brought against him. No American can hesitate to uphold Col. Higginson's side of the question...