Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every senior will find it to his advantage to read with care the rules which will govern the election tonight of Class Day officers from Ninety-four. The aim of the committee on arrangements has been to ensure as fair and parliamentary a method of conducting the business as could be had by a study of the experiences of other class meetings. The result of this investigation is embodied in the regulations published this morning. Particular attention is called to the provision by which no voter shall be kept from making whatever nominations he may wish. No one need fear...
...other thought than a candidate's fitness and merit for office should govern the elections tonight of Class Day officers from Ninety-four. It is not for two or three men to settle between them which one shall accept a nomination, for that is not fair to the Class. The voters themselves should decide between several candidates and not the candidates themselves. Much more unfair is it for any one clique or combination of cliques to interpret the sentiment of the class and to use their influence to keep out of prominence men who have at least a claim...
...Every office shall be voted separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce, and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk, but votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. No motion to close the nominations shall be in order until a fair chance has been given to each voter to make his nomination. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited...
Geological Conference. Papers: Interpretation of Topographic Maps, Mr. C. P. Gulliver; Exhibition of new Paleontological Materials, Dr. R. T. Jackson; The Geological Exhibits at the World's Fair, Dr. T. W. Harris. Geological Laboratory...
First and best is the contribution by Professor Barrett Wendell, entitled, "Impressions of Chicago." All of us who have been to Chicago, have come away with impressions of the World's Fair which we would like to put into words if we could, but which are so undefinable, and so grand at the same time, that we find it impossible. Professor Wendell, however, takes up the subject in such a suggestive and attractive way, that the reader finds impressions of his own put before him,- impressions that before he scarcely knew...