Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...executive committees of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton alumni clubs of St. Louis and vicinity have recently appointed a sub-committee to consider plans for the organization of a Harvard-Yale-Princeton World's Fair Club. The object of such a club is to provide, at some convenient spot on the grounds of the Exposition, suitable quarters for members of the local alumni clubs as well as for visiting graduates and undergraduates of the three colleges...
...privileges of the club are cordially extended to all Harvard, Yale and Princeton men who visit the Fair...
...have these matters in charge,--the cheerers as well as the cheered,--to see that intercollegiate contests shall not become detrimental to both participants and spectators? Without abating one jot of spirited emulation in testing one another's mettle, may we not pursue these contests in a spirit of fair dealing and mutual concession, without the loss of chivalrous temper, and with the cultivation of cordial relations and of a common esprit de corps...
...disconcert our own team, for no welcome falls flatter than a fainthearted cheer, and applause and encouragement do not amount to much when only twenty or thirty respond out of several hundred. If we are to have cheering (at all) at our games let it be given a fair test by having certain sections of seats reserved for undergraduates, and undergraduates, only...
...Regatta Concert" that evening, given by the Cornell glee and mandolin clubs, a box was reserved for the visiting crew, and "Fair Harvard" was one of the numbers on the program. Shortly after breakfast the next morning, the manager appeared at the hotel with a drag and four horses, and invited the entire squad of twelve Harvard men to drive with him along the shores of Lake Cayuga, and in the afternoon special seats were reserved for them at the Pennsylvania-Cornell ball game. Immediately after the race the Cornell men aided those whom they had just defeated in getting...