Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with an insurance house. My superior left?I had been doing his work, was thoroughly conversant with it?should have had the job. I expected it?rny fellow-workers expected it. Well, I didn't get it; some relative of one of the directors did; it wasn't fair; it wasn't right. To tell the truth, I had almost forgotten the incident, but possibly, subconsciously, that may have been the seed for the present system...
...fair weather did much of offset the slightly soggy ground and the chilly wind at Soldiers' Field as Coach Slattery's baseball squad took their last work-out of the week on the Freshman field yesterday. There will be no practice today, but on Monday, the whole squad, including the pitchers, will desert the cage for out-door practice...
...chance to see the whole squad in action outside will be welcomed by Coach Slattery who so far has had no opportunity to judge his candidates on a fair basis. Coach Mitchell also explained that while a pitcher may seem to be a world-beater in the cage, his fielding or batting may show up to bad advantage when he gets outdoors...
...exist for him. Yet religion is composed essentially of these elements. The only satisfactory approach to religion must itself be religious, sympathetic. Religion is a matter of experience; he who has not undergone the religious experience has no right to pass judgment on religion. Let us give religion a fair chance, and allow it to make its appeal in its own peculiar manner...
...neither in the interests of instructor, student, fair discipline, nor education can the present hour examinations be supported. Their only justification is in the cases of "doubtful" Freshmen and more than "doubtful" upperclassmen. In these two cases they might--after sufficient warning--be made bases for action. In any others they serve but to pile up work at University Hall, to swell the budgets of tutoring schools, and fatally to emphasize the mechanical side of education.--"Horidae Scholasticae...