Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work, he could sit down to write 100 autographs for a fair in Chattanooga;--or, perhaps, go out and walk miles to secure kindness for some old friend troubled with chronic and insuperable need of money...
...There is fair skating today at the Cambridge Skating Club; Franklin Field, Dorchester; Brae Burn Country Club, West Newton; Country Club, Brookline; Neponset Playground; Gibson Playground; First Street Playground; Ashmont Playground; Randolph Street Playground; Savin Hill Playground; North Brighton Playground...
...that the coaching this year would be directed to the further development of the Harvard system, and toward proficiency in intelligent baseball. He admitted that the shortness of the season and the necessity of reducing the squad to a working size made it difficult to give every man a fair trial, and asked that all complaints be made directly to the authorities. He further urged that individual spirit should be sacrificed to obtain harmony--the essential of a winning team--and that every one should go into the work with the best interest of the team in view...
...Club, West Newton; Country Club, Brookline; Billings Field, West Roxbury; Boston Common and Public Garden; Wood Island Park, East Boston; Neponset Playground; North Brighton Playground; Rogers Park, Brighton; Commonwealth Skating Club, Brighton; Ashmont Playground; Charlesbank Gymnasium, Boston; Randolph Street Playground; Columbus Avenue Playground; Charlestown Playground. The ice is in fair condition on the Brookline Reservoir, and the toboggan slide at Franklin Field is in good condition...
...making industry. The action he brought about was labeled unconstitutional then--if I remember right--the fashion in labels has changed since under compulsion of accumulated evidence--but he learned something he has never forgotten. He is the same man who sits today in the White House demanding a fair chance for all the people, rich or poor, that the Republic may have a fair chance. Without that, it cannot have it. For, as I said, New York is but the type of all the growing cities in the land. It sets the fashion. Whatever we do there, the others...