Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...love, though you are very fair...
...question of a fair marking-system has not unfrequently been discussed here, but never with sufficient result to remove the present general dissatisfaction with several methods now in use. Inasmuch as there are nearly as many marking-systems as instructors at Harvard, it seems impossible in verum natura that even a majority of these systems should be entirely right and fair...
...songs, novels, and plays." The reverend President is particularly severe towards the young ladies, and solemnly warns them that "between the Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass"; and then he paints quite a vivid picture, which I think the fair Bostonian novel-reader would hardly recognize as herself: "A weary, distressed, bewildered voyager amid the billows of affliction, she looks around her in vain to find a pilot, a pole-star, or a shore...
...American Tom Hughes has made his appearance. A book called "Student Life at Harvard" is about to be published, written, it is understood, by one of the class of '64. The extracts we have seen from the advance sheets indicate something very much like a repetition of "Fair Harvard," or, at least, more like that work than like "Tom Brown." Whenever an excellent story of the life of undergraduates here is written, it will be received with enthusiasm, and the reputation of its author will be made. The book that is to succeed must be written with some reference...
...right direction, to so direct it that it may show us the way to victory, is what we should now give our attention to. That this desirable object may be attained we invite every one to express his view, and we promise to give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions or the processes of reasoning adopted by any of our correspondents this week cannot do better than to tell us all what they think. Then from many plans we may select the best, and the crimson next summer may possibly come up ahead...