Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Preface to "Fair Harvard" the author states, that when he showed his production to a friend, before its publication, and asked his advice, the advice was to this effect: to do one of two things, either burn the book or throw it into the North River. If some kind friend had overlooked "Student Life at Harvard," the advanced sheets of which are before us, and induced the author to adopt a course similar to one of these, the world would have been no great loser. We understand fully that to paint life here in such a way that everybody will...
...fair and tender...
Flashed as they cheered the fair...
...case. And the consequence is, that instead of being a leader in discovery, invention, and opinion, the representative Harvard graduate of to-day is, as a general thing, a representative merely of a slight amount of culture and the most well-bred traits. He is able to pass a fair opinion in literature, art, and occasionally in science, but is far from being a forerunner in progressive work. He is amply satisfied to luxuriate in the attainments of the present. In other words, his civilization is stationary...
...that none of these authors have been taken up in this elective, and that the letters of Gajus Pliny the Younger have been substituted? If the professors are not bound down to follow the printed programme, it certainly seems fair that some warning should be given to the unsuspecting to that effect. In the present case the change is not one that could cause much trouble, but it would be quite an unpleasant surprise to one who intended to pursue a course in Fine Arts with ardor to find that Mechanics had been put in its place. Is the elective...