Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pump was a malicious one, the removal is hardly a punishment to the perpetrators. It is only causing very great inconvenience to those rooming in the yard, and others, who deprecate the attempt as much as the college authorities. We think therefore that it would be only fair to replace the pump, or else we suggest that subscriptions be received for a new one. GRADUATE...
...yard runs were a doubtful criterion of speed, as it was impossible for the large field of competitors to run a fair race on the narrow track. In the 600-yard handicap M. W. Long of Columbia was practically crowded out by the slow men in front of him and could do no better than second place, J. M. Burke of Holy Cross winning in 1m. 18 4-5s. D. W. Franchot of Yale was much faster than his opponents in the 1000-yard run, but because of the crowd he won by only a few feet. The time...
...appeared "Vanity Fair," Thackeray's most powerful work. With terrible truth he painted the frivolous world of London society, and with scathing satire laid its nature bare. A chord of sombreness and melancholy sounds through the book, for Thackeray was not painting the world but arraigning a society in which all was indeed vanity and where the play was indeed "played...
...Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's first great success. In truthful depiction and now in satire he had succeeded; he was then to enter, as a novelist, the third stage of his literary development. "Fun is good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does...
...Harvard College; but they support the belief that as a body the students use the system with reasonable intelligence. They confirm the results of previous inquiries in several important respects;--thus, they prove that under a wide elective system there will be no extreme specialization, and there will be fair amount of judicious choice of correlated subjects. The general conclusion is that a boy of eighteen who has had a good training up to that age will ordinarily use the elective system wisely, and that the boy who has had an imperfect or poor training up to eighteen years...