Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting to the college to know the reasons for this expenditure. Does the hall greatly need such an office at a time when the question of the price of board is always a matter of considerable dispute and dissatisfaction? If we really need this additional accommodation, is it fair that it should all be paid for by this year's boarders? Why cannot the bill be paid off gradually, as so many other bills have been...
...last Saturday in German I. to two friends who had each taken higher German courses, and they were totally unable to translate the greater part of it, which was given to us "at sight." I have yet to find a member of the course who considers the paper a fair one, much less an easy...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5, 1. A. M. For New England, colder and generally fair weather, with westerly winds and higher temperature...
Such a grand poetic scene could not be viewed by the dancers without something giving way. In this case it was not, as with Uncle Josh, the "gallus," which burst, but it was a beam of sunshine "bursting" from so many fair faces. Whether the explosion hurt anyone or not, the News dosen't say. The temperature of the hall, the radiant faces of our fair sympathizers, the brilliancy of New Haven gas, the continuous maze impelled simply by the light music, and the bad words uttered when some unfortunate wight stumbled over a lady's train...
...numerous objections that have been urged against the examination system is that a test of this kind does not give a fair indication of a man's abilities or of the work he has done on the course throughout the year. In a course where nothing but the two regular examinations count, it is possible for a man to neglect his work during the main part of the year, and by a little hard study, just before the examinations, to obtain as high a mark as the man who worked faithfully and regularly on the course. As no one examination...