Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Then come, my ain fair love...
COME awa', my fair love...
...countless objections to a system which shall place the examinations of all our colleges in the hands of a single board. But if the intercollegiate contests as they now exist are in themselves a good, the mode of government which has been settled upon seems to be an eminently fair...
...opportunity of giving a student credit for apparent improvement. On the other hand, a person unacquainted with the system on which the instruction has been carried, and unacquainted with the students themselves, is unable to form an accurate judgment of the value of an examination-book. It is not fair that a student should prepare for an examination under one instructor, and that his mark should be given him by another...
...truth is, men are hanging back to see who their antagonists are going to be. This is, of course, nonsense; if a man is capable of entering into an athletic contest at all, he ought not to be afraid to have it known that he considers himself a fair match for any other man of the same weight who may happen to be his opponent. We understand the feeling that prompts this procrastination, but cannot do otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar...