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Reading the letters in TIME, Oct. 28 has clarified my mind as to your claimed fairness or lack of bias: when your statements or expressed point of view or ground for inference as to your opinion are such as to agree with my own opinion, you are undoubtedly fair and unbiased, but when any of these are contrary to what I think, then you are certainly unfair, biased, prejudiced, mean, underhanded. Consequently, when I am about to rush you a cancellation of my subscription I am brought to a pause by the discovery that you agree with...
...dead hog for dinner," or I can say "I ate roast pork." In both cases I would be correct. The President could get "scattered cheers," or he could get applause. Both are correct. But "scattered cheers" shows your bias in the matter. In another place, you use the words "My frien-n-nds," as though to deride the President's speech, when "My friends," would do just as well, and carry no sense of a jeer. You will say no such effect is intended, but I am the judge of the effect it produces...
...about life. Cynics often claim that the only advantage of a college education is to unload the mind of the prejudices and ideals bred in the family bosom. Henry Adams was rather more gentle in saying that if it did nothing else, Harvard College left the mind...free from bias...docile...
...grind, declares that "the mass of American writers have started out so to distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians who have written of Reconstruction, he brings charges of omission or bias against almost all, including the Beards, Claude Bowers, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and eleven school textbooks. In his bibliography Author Du Bois is even more exclusive, listing 28 standard works as anti-Negro, twelve as propaganda for the South, 25 as "Fair to Indifferent on the Negro," only 13 by historians...
...jealous insistence of the press on the justice and liberality of Harvard's action, and its insistance that this action does not imply any dogmatic bias is a good omen for the future of liberal universities in this country...