Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Nelson of Volkmann's won both dashes in very fast time, the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat and the 220 in 22 1-5 seconds. H. Jaques, Jr., of Volkmann's secured first place in the half-mile in 2 minutes, 5 3-5 seconds which was fair under the existing conditions...
...boatrace this afternoon bids fair to be well contested and a good try-out for both crews. On account of the late spring this year, however, neither the University nor the Columbia crew is as much developed as it ought to be for a race. Furthermore, both eights have been handicapped by the changes that have been made at very recent dates. In weight and experience, however, the Harvard crew has an advantage and for that reason ought...
...obvious that the first four lines of the first stanza of "Fair Harvard,"--written especially for Commencement--are not appropriate for many of the occasions on which we sing them. This is particularly noticeable after football games, when our "jubilees" have been of late few; nor do we surrender the College to future generations at the end of a pop concert in the Union...
...words of "Bright College Years" and Cornell's "Alma Mater," being applicable to no particular occasion, are applicable to any. It seems that some one could be found, who would re-write the first four lines of "Fair Harvard," giving us in their place lines that could be sung appropriately on all occasions; as it is, only for the Stadium exercises on Class Day, and for Commencement are the present words fitting. If Harvard men, graduates as well as undergraduates, would interest themselves, someone would produce words appropriate not only for these occasions, but for all others as well...
...communication suggesting the inappropriateness for most occasions of the opening lines of "Fair Harvard," which we print in another column this morning, deserves more attention than we are apt to realize at the first glance. Certainly when we stop to consider the meaning of these lines, so familiar to every Harvard man, we must admit their inappropriateness in nine cases out of ten. But it is one thing to criticise and another to construct. If new words were to be written, as the writer of the communication suggests, we feel that they should only be officially adopted after the most...