Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disposed to grumble at the actual choice, provided that some one reasonably popular and efficient be selected. It would be mere presumption to claim that the students are at all competent to make any affirmative choice from among the various candidates for the position, but it is certainly fair for them to demand that no one, who by general agreement is believed to be unsuited for the place, and whose unpopularity would impair the efficiency of his administration, should be chosen to an office so closely connected with the welfare and interests of every student...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27, 1882, 1 A. M. For New England, slighly warmer, fair weather; southwesterly winds; stationary or lower pressure...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25, 1882, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, northerly, veering to easterly winds, stationary or higher temperature and stationary higher pressure...
...Park the Rankins enter upon the second week of a fair engagement, and will continue their new play, " '49," until further notice. Although not much can be said of the play itself, Mrs. Rankin's impersonation of Carrots is a very artistic piece of work...
...should like to quote again, for the American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun, not meant in any sort of malice." After all this, why should so fair a paper as the American persist in judging us so harshly, when even our own Crimson, ardent admirer and exponent of Mr. Wilde as it is, sees nothing to condemn in the frolic...