Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...playing of the candidates for the freshman nine this spring shows that they have a vast amount of work to do if they hope to make a respectable record. Their work in so unimportant a game as that of yesterday can hardly be taken as a fair estimate of what they can do; but it at least indicates that to succeed they must put far more zeal into their work. The listless way in which they played out the game was anything but encouraging...
...proved beneficial in California. The leaders for the negative disputed all these points. They held that California afforded no parallel for the New Orleans affair; that such a society as the Mafia could be-suppressed by legal means; and that every man accused of murder is entitled to a fair trial...
...last few years as head alternately of several of the large English courses has brought him into contact with a larger number of men than it falls to the lot of most instructors to know. All those men unite in admiring him for just those qualities of sympathy and fair-mindedness which are so necessary in an efficient Dean. No other appointment would have been so acceptable to the students, whose wishes in a matter of this kind are not to be overlooked, and Mr. Briggs may look forward to the cordial co-operation of the whole college when...
...both for and against the shortening of the college course. In this connection it is interesting to note the arguments of which the overseers cheerfully avail themselves in putting aside for the present any further conslderation of the change. The committee whose report was adopted, say: "We think it fair to treat this as a case of nearly equal division of opinion of the teaching body of the college; and for that reason, if for no other, your committee think it would be unwise for the Corporation and Overseers to approve so important and far-reaching a change...
...will bring upon the offender a severe penalty. Owing to this stringency, there seems to be little danger that the rule hereafter will not work itself out. At present, however, lestmen may have forgotten the exact nature and penalty of the regulation, the committee wishes to give contestants fair warning of what is required of them...