Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructors seem unable to determine what should be a paper of fair length for a three-hour examination, as has been rather forcibly shown by some recent examinations. This is an old grievance, it is true, and one that has often been commented upon, yet its constant recurrence seems to call for even further notice. The only answer made to complaints on this subject is that the system of long examination is designed to bring to light the men who have failed to keep up with their work properly. Yet the force of this argument is greatly diminished when...
...long may fair Memorial Hall...
...fair and stormy weather...
...especially fine lot of young fellows in appearance, and their friends will be grieviously disappointed if they do not give a good account of themselves in their contest against Harvard-so good, indeed, that Harvard will be left far behind. Their chances for victory are more than fair, as will be seen by an article in our local columns. They are the heaviest crew but one that Columbia has ever turned out, and as there is never any discount on the pluck of Columbia men, it appears likely that New Yorkers will have reason to be more than usually proud...
...examination, that it will be impossible to finish the paper in the time allotted. The hasty work done under such circumstances cannot fail to disgust the instructor, and we can say from experience that it disgusts the writer of the paper. It is almost impossible to get a fair estimate of a man's ability from the hasty scrawl which he really feels obliged to hand in, and we fail to see what object the instructor can have in view in setting such a paper, unless he wishes to test the students carelessness, and not of his intelligence. The custom...