Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have not forgotten the proverb, "Let well enough alone," and detest that cavilling spirit that like a dishonest dentist always finds one more defect to be remedied. But, on the other hand, suggestions of improvement are proverbially a paper's vantage-ground, and it seems but fair we should here express in concert what finds daily expression in the jokes or grumblings of individuals. Why, then, does the anachronism still-exist of a rule in the Schedule of the Memorial Hall Association forbidding the use of alcoholic drinks among the diners at the Hall? In the old days, when...
...Tyro has a poem on Millais's "Huguenots" which is decidedly the best undergraduate's production we have seen of late. But we wish that the fair editors of the Tyro would not repay the Yale Record's rudeness in kind...
...courtesies of the day, as we had snatched the few moments between two recitations to make some corrections upon which our issue was waiting, yet we saw enough to show us where some, at least, of the geniality and vivacity of the Advocate comes from. Mr. Wheeler is a fair sample of the intensified life of California, and no doubt sometimes awakens the cool blue blood of our Down-East cousin to a quicker flow. As a student and brother "Scrib," may his flame never wax less...
...There are hundreds of entertaining and instructive shilling books, not to mention the respectable library one could collect at the rate of sixpence a volume. The leading publishing houses issue at times "libraries," as they call them, of famous authors, in paper covers, it is true, but printed on fair paper and in good type; these "libraries," comprising history, science, and fiction, furnish good reading at prices within the reach of every one who wants to read...
...fair to suppose that something is the matter with its mind...