Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...
...speaking thus, we hope to be in no way misunderstood. Such a method is not advocated for permanent adoption. our position is this: that, under present circumstances, fair treatment of all the members of the student body calls for such arrangements as will accommodate a large number at Memorial during the coming year, and as will make the accommodations not glaringly unequal; but that the present necessity overcome by the prompt action of the corporation, an immediate return should be made to club tables, unalloyed, throughout the hall. If emphasis was to be laid on either of these opinions...
...Play-on the part of classical teachers or students who otherwise would not see the play-about three times as many tickets were asked for as were at the committee's disposal. In making the assignments the committee has given tickets to all the teachers of classics and a fair proportion of the best pupils from the schools which regularly send a number of persons to the college...
...indifference of candidates, or the carelessness of captains. To throw blame where it is not deserved, where, in fact, high praise ought to be given-this would make a bad matter worse. The men who are trying for the teams are doing hard and steady work, and no fair-minded man could ask more from the captains than they themselves are eager...
This is not quite fair. We do not want to have things represented as temporary; bear them, accordingly, with good grace; and later on find that they are bound upon us hard and fast. The difference between something permanent and something indefinitely temporary we hardly see; and while we believe that students should and will show their willingness to meet the present necessity, we also insist that the Corporation, on their side, ought to take some decisive steps to remedy matters. What pledge is there that the whole of Memorial shall not some day be turned into general tables? Classes...