Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal interviews wherever possible" would be as unjust to those applicants who found it possible as to those who found it impossible. However interesting and significant the results of such investigation may be, they cannot be more than supplementary. An absolute standard is the only one which can prove fair and consistent with itself. The only absolute standard at the command of any university is that of scholarship...
...seeks merely to make fun of it will make himself ridiculous. A scheme which has gained weight and dignity by the names and counsel of ELIHU ROOT, JOHN W. DAVIS, Judge LEARNED HAND, General HARBORD, Governor MILLER, Colonel HOUSE and honorable women not a few is no longer fair game for flippant humorists...
...well decide never to get married at all. Rupert Hughes has perceived that the conflicting State divorce laws are far too complicated for the American citizen who goes in for marriage as a comprehensive study. He may be married in one state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal of the villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser...
...testimonial to the fact that Harvard is not so indifferent to public issues in general as some would make out. For the question of Prohibition is no more particular to the University than to the country at large. Moreover the fact that the moderationists won the day is a fair proof that prejudice played little part, that extremists on both sides curbed personal desires for what they considered the most reasonable solution, and therefore that reason divorced from prejudice is in favor of modification of the Volstead Act to allow light wines and beers...
Harvard's checking back by the forward line was fair enough Saturday night, but in the last ditch defence about the goal the Crimson let through several of the scores which alertness would have stopped in Toronto's 4 to 1 victory Saturday night...