Word: fide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boat is to be disqualified if at any point during the race it should be nearer than ten feet or farther than ninety feet from the central line of buoys. It is further provided that if during the first ten strokes either boat shall be disabled by any bona fide accident the start shall be taken over again. The following is the substance of the provision in regard to the position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine by five inches on a metal rod eighteen inches high, the rod to be fixed perpendicularly...
Both boats shall be at the start at the time agreed upon. In case either boat fails to appear the captain of said boat shall personally report to the referee before said time, and unless the delay has been caused by a bona fide accident he shall at once proceed to start the other boat...
...other atrocities only rivalled in cruelty by the above described act. One freshman reports that he was recently visited and forcibly denuded of a mustache that he had only just secured after a great outlay of time and money, and which, it was confidently believed, was the only bona fide article in the entire class. The sophomore class, we are surprised to learn, abets its colleagues in their wicked acts and threatens to withdraw from college if the penalty is enforced against the offenders. This action should help them none. It is time that a warning should be given...
...politely but firmly refused. The reasons given for discrimination in favor of Yale, and against Harvard students, were perfectly satisfactory. New Haven is a way station, so to speak, and as the tickets issuing from there are not in great demand in the market, no one but bona fide students made use of the "cut" rates. But a ticket from Boston for any other city is always in demand, and the railroads found that some students were making a speculation of their privilege, and that their tickets were rapidly finding their way to the "scalpers." To prevent this...
...Sanders, four Tree or five Memorial tickets will be sold to one person. First come, first served, will be the rule. Applications when not made in person must be by written order. The committee have determined on a price sufficient in their opinion to make all purchases bona fide, and at the same time to place the tickets within the reach...