Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...views are conspicuously superficial. "Family life among the Mormons" by one of the fifty-six children of Brigham Young is just about what might be expected from its origin, being both weak, unveracious and silly. Barnum the showman, tells in the Notes and Comments what the next World's Fair should be Colonel Ingersoll ends his explanation "Why am I an Agnostic?" Edward Bellamy contributes a paper on "Nationalism," and George Westinghouse jr., one on "Electric Lighting" in which he takes issue with the article by Sir William Thompson in the February number...
...belief that the old regulations were still in force. The Athletic association now, therefore, inasmuch as no timely notice has been given the classes, has decided that in justice to the various class managements, the rule should be repealed. The regulation as passed last year seems to us eminently fair. It is unfortunate that it should have to be rescinded this year merely on account of an apparent oversight, and we hope that next year it will be put in force...
...said that the club is worse now than it has been for years." The club has given three concerts lately, one at Winchester, when the audience who alone are the proper judges expressed themselves as entirely satisfied with the singing. (It is fair to state that at this concert the club labored under the disadvantage of having no piano). The second concert at Arlington, was, it is true, below par, but by no means "disgraceful." We are surprised to hear the subsequent dissatisfaction of the audience as no such disapproval was made manifest while the concert was in progress. Finally...
...crowd that he is free from all selfconsciousness of manner, so used to the sight of misery that he is callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise of the city, wonder at strange sights, shudder at crime and are shocked by vice. They cannot look at disturbances with equanimity and are more likely to form more intense convictions...
...Lathrop, '90, 164 pounds. Rows in very fair form but has not a good control of his body; weak at finish and does not use his slide carefully...