Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report of the committee which has been made the special assignment of the Faculty for Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1883. On account of the lateness of the hour was are unable to print the report until tomorrow, but a hasty perusal of it convinces us that it is fair and straightforward and well supported by facts. The committee have modified their original report since the hearing of Monday evening and recommended the abolition of foot ball games "except those played by our own men on our own grounds" under changed rules. This is certainly an important modification and one for which...
What we want is a fair trial. The experiment of last year can hardly be called that. The college did not realize the depth of the change which should have been made. Since then public opinion and college opinion have changed for the better, the circumstances themselves have changed. A failure then under those circumstances, does not necessarily mean another failure now under the existing circumstances. We ask the committee to post pone action in the matter until after the convention. We appreciate our danger and will do all we can to avert it. We only demand a fair chance...
...above is an attempt at a fair statement of the arguments urged by the committee in support of it's action. What do the students respond...
...undoubtedly lies with the faculty, we must show cause why they should not take any particular action, and try to bring them to our way of thinking. So, while the right of interference cannot be denied, we think that the committee ought to allow the students at least a fair chance to correct the evils, which they must point out, before they decide to make such a recommendation to the faculty as they propose to. Let them allow the foot ball men to attempt a change, before the game is forbidden...
...rooms, the ones that we have heard so much about lately. They are easy to take and are so varied that they cannot become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention; but if any one will call...