Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already made something out of nothing, and who with good health and fair play will make in time a department of which not even "John Donne" need be ashamed...
...Andover Club next Saturday together with various other events of the kind, show the social activity that for the moment replaces that of the out-door athletics. The university Chess Club is now in the midst of a tournament for which there were thirty-one entries and which bids fair to result in a close and interesting contest; and a strong competition for the various papers and literary magazines is making itself apparent. The "Banner" for 1886-7 will be ready for sale this week, and will undoubtedly be the most attractive one ever published. One feature of the issue...
...last evening. A large number of the students were present and the faculty was represented by Dean Huntington and Profs. Browne, Buck, Dorchester, Curry and Lindsay. The entertainment consisted of songs from Tennyson by Mr. L. B. Greenwood and Miss Conant, and a representation of Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women," the parts being taken by Misses Teele, Root, Hoag, Gooding, Shinn, Clarke, Latham, Small and Thomas; Mr. Magee, '88, taking the part of the dreamer. After the entertainment refreshments were served, followed by the singing of college glees, and charades. - Boston Herald...
...this, I conceive, is inconsistent with our elective system. There are many men within the writer's acquaintance whose average for the first two years of their course has been far above 90 per cent. but who have received in Chemistry A below 50 per cent.; is it fair that men, who, under the old system, would be entitled to a degree summa cum laude should be denied a degree cum laude? If in the change of regulations a higher standard had been the object of the faculty, we should not complain; but since the faculty, in whose opinion...
...communication regarding the method of work in History 13, which appears this morning seems to give a fair statement of the case. The writer with justice shows that the accusation of laziness, which a correspondent made in Tuesdays paper against those who desire a systematic course of reading in the course, is certainly uncalled for. Every one who has taken the same knows that there is a vast amount of reading to be done, and that the reference books are few and far between, compared with the large number of men who take the course. If it is often impossible...