Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dozen of contestants faced the traps for the first competition in the new match. No better weather could have been desired than that with which the shooters were favored, yet for some reason, the scores were hardly up to the usual high average, though the double-bird shooting was fair. The winning scores of each day are made up from the aggregate of 10 singles and five pairs of doubles, and, for purposes of comparison, these scores are given separately below...
...subject too long to be here entered upon. But this is certain, that the cadet who would go through the academy with success must "look alive." For to cover the ground, the daily lessons are something prodigious, while the examinations are extraordinarily severe. Only steady, constant application, backed by fair ability, will enable a cadet to maintain his position at the academy...
...Dean. The college, of course, has a college yell, a bell ringer, and a young lady in the Dean's office. What college hasn't? And the prayers are voluntary. So, after all, Boston University is well worth attention, thinks the visitor, as he accompanies to her home his fair guide...
...take up mercantile careers and are disgusted to find that they are expected to do work only fit for boys of fourteen or fifteen years of age, and unfortunately they show their disgust by assuming airs superior to their situations, by leaving before they have given business a fair trial, and by condemning as impossible careers that are simply misunderstood by their inexperienced and unsettled minds. Naturally, practical business men of a limited education, but early business training, are unwilling to take such superior (?) spirits into their offices and do not hesitate to prefer younger men, who are more amenable...
...controversies of this kind, it is easy to see that the student searching after the truth is often at fault. In the lectures, however, which we have recently heard on the controversy, their faults have been reduced to a minimum, and the students of the university have had a fair opportunity of judging of the relative merits of the arguments advanced by Prof. Thompson, and Mr. Godkin...