Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speak a word of caution, very likely quite unnecessary, against accepting Mr. Roosevelt's violent arraignment of Harvard College opinion in your columns as representative of the general position of the graduates, or for that matter, as a fair example of the tone usually taken on this subject by educated and thoughtful men anywhere? Of the significance of the Monroe doctrine, and its place in international law I have nothing to say, except that they can not be settled even by the most emphatic assertion, but must abide the decision of those who are qualified by their training and temper...
...Gymnasium, considerable dissatisfaction has been expressed and if they prove to be unsatisfactory they will doubtless be replaced by key locks. No steps, however, as yet, have been taken about the matter. The authorities realize the advantage of the new locks and have determined to give them a fair trial. If, after a sufficient time, they continue to be unsatisfactory, and it appears best for the gymnasium, key locks will...
With regard to the position of those who as captains or coaches are put in charge of our teams there should be a fair understanding. These men hold their positions not by their own choice, but by the will of the authorized representatives of the University. Together with the responsibility which they owe to the University must be considered that which the University owes to them, of giving them all possible material to work with and hearty support from the beginning to the end of the season...
...crying one which the University has felt within the past few years. Other needs have had a more important bearing on the life of Harvard as an institution of learning, but as a civilized community, none. That the demands of health and cleanliness can now be met with a fair degree of comfort and convenience is a privilege which, though it is generally taken as a matter of course, hard experience has taught us to appreciate and for which we are now heartily thankful...
...that the French Play is over and has proved to be such a popular success, it seems to me that it would be but fair to the students who devoted so much of their time to it, as well as a worthy undertaking for the increase of the French library, to give two or three performances of "Le Malade Imaginaire" in New York; it is unfortunately too late to carry out this plan during the coming Christmas vacation, but Easter week would, I think, be a very fitting time for it. This project could be carried out with very little...