Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word about rules. I sometimes get an absurd letter from some man, who fails to grasp what seems a simple point, and apparently thinks that rules are set up to suit the whim of the Librarian, and therefore it is a fair game to circumvent them; that fines or other charges are designed to enrich the institution or its employees, and therefore that one is at liberty to keep any book as long as he likes if only he pays the fines that accrue. What foolishness! Fines and charges are for the purpose of getting books back at the proper...
...White House by a symphony concert, the House of Lords may soon be opening its deliberations with a performance of "The Mikado", and all political speeches made in the style of Artemus Ward. Before long statesmanship will consist in perpetual conferring at attractively situated resorts. The nine Muses bid fair to make a complete conquest of the seven great Powers...
...regular examinations, would have a double merit. In the first place, it will spare a man who is incapable of profiting by college work, from the waste of his time and money in entering. Secondly, and most important from the college's view-point, it will offer a fair and rational means of elimination as a step toward limited enrollment...
...there. He is sure of advantages enough in the technicalities of the law and in delays, negligences and mistakes. There is no danger that he will cease to have a full opportunity and all possible means of keeping out of jail. Give the community at least something like a fair chance. Protect the public safety a good deal more and its enemies a good deal less. --New York Times
...parrot-student" may have increased his knowledge, but unless he can put that knowledge to work, he is still sadly lacking in true education. On the other hand, the man who has a fair estimate of the work required, and who has cultivated in addition the habit of using his head, will very rarely flunk out. What is even more, he will have acquired a power that the "parrot-student" can never know...