Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthusiasm in her minor sports and, at Yale, interest has always been kept up. Harvard, having let this spirit die down, has a hard task ahead of her in building it up again. Princeton's recognition with a Varsity letter of a championship minor sport team is a fair award which will prove a great incentive in the future. This, after all, is the best way of solving the problem. Daily Princetonian
...which has been formed in order to investigate conditions in Ireland. Aside from the fact that many reputable Americans who were invited to serve on the Committee declined to do so, thus leaving a personnel composed almost entirely of avowed Irish sympathizers, there is the manifest impossibility of any fair "investigation" by such a Committee. The Irish side they can, and are, hearing; but what of the other? The other is the British government, which manifestly will not present its evidence before a self-appointed, unofficial body of hostile investigators from a country which is not concerned in the matter...
...feel that the Church makes too much of theology. On the contrary it probably makes too little of it. A plain and positive teaching on the essentials of the Christian faith is what men are loking for and need. Others feel that the ministry does not offer them a fair and solid living. It is true that its returns at this point are meager, but it is also true that a new conscience in the Church is preparing for the adequate support of its ministry...
Then follows a severe condemnation of the fair Cornellians who have caused the "degeneration" of the library, who have prevented a professor from entering his office by holding a "nose-powdering festival" on the threshold, and estranged the Metropolitan press by singing football songs on a New York ferry-boat. But this is not all. "Cornell is and always has been essentially not only a man's but a he-man's' school." If something is not done at once "Cornell will face an overthrow." That's the real danger an overthrow...
...prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England, the radicals can get no converts because the men are happy in a steady job, fair hours, good wages, a sliding scale, and a labor organization that has the countenance of the management. Bolshevism cannot get a hold in a community where decent labor conditions prevail...