Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strictly speaking, no one should object to this new tack taken by the professors. Nothing could be more fair. There is no invalid discrimination. The only ones who are hit are those who tutor. The student who has honestly tried and still is not able to think with originality on an examination should--hard as this may seem--get a low grade anyway. All others are not affected, for the exams are not made harder, but only more thought-provoking...
...Under fair water conditions four Varsity boats, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Harvard, rowed up to a flying start for a two mile race, while thunderheads were threatening overhead. At the mile rain curtained the boats as they rowed down the course, Harvard out ahead with the largest early lead of any contest this season. Syracuse was second, followed by Penn, with the Big Red trailing the fleet...
...setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet" of fountains from 14 nozzles, which are controlled by cams, squirt in choreographic rhythms in a five-minute cycle...
...students, to people who took the trouble to write for an admission card. Last week, for the first time, the great Morgan Library's grille-work gates were with due precaution thrown open to the public, for the duration of the New York World's Fair...
...milk-mildest exhibits in the New York World's Fair is the $250,000, garden-cloistered Temple of Religion. Carefully not consecrated by any churchman, studiously avoiding any favoritism among faiths, the Temple has scheduled only sacred concerts, non-controversial discourses on "Religious Freedom" and "God's Place in Man's Life," by priests, rabbis and ministers, in rotation...