Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Enforced attendance on college exercises, especially lectures, has for a long time been a source of disagreement between the authorities and the students. But the fact that attendance has to be enforced ought to raise the question of the justice of such a proceeding. Is it fair to force students to attend lectures if they do not find the lectures worth attending? It may not be possible to make all academic lectures attractive, but it should be possible to make them so valuable that the student would regard a cut as a misfortune, rather than as a liberation. It need...
...class, but there is one point which has created considerable dissatisfaction, and that is the method by means of which the rooms are to be allotted. The following statement was made by one of the speakers at the Junior meeting held in the Union, Tuesday evening: "It seems only fair that in allotting rooms in the dormitories, the men applying in groups of 14 should have preference." So far as I am concerned, I cannot see why groups of 14 should be favored any more than groups of two. It is well known to all those wishing to room...
...much too low, and that any suitable means to raise it should be adopted. The case in hand furnishes an opportunity in this direction. If it is decided, however, to charge the additional $10.00 for continuance in the course after a student is relieved from prescription, it seems only fair that the additional receipts be turned back into the course, so providing better instruction in this, the most fundamental of all subjects...
...program is as follows: 1. Overture Iphigenie in Aulis, Gluck 2. Harvard March. 3. Selections from "The Geisha," Sidney Jones 4. Harvard March. 5. La Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge Prelude to Act 3, Massenet 6. Harvard March. 7. The Chocolate Soldier, Oscar, Strauss 8. Fair Harvard...
...practice either day. There must be some reasons for such a pitiful showing: the only ones apparent are laziness and a misunderstanding of the necessary qualifications of an oarsman--height and weight. We will pass over the former with the remark that the class of 1913 is bidding fair to mar the excellent record which it has maintained so far. As to the latter, we can only reiterate the statement that no previous experience is necessary, and that many 'Varsity oarsmen never sat in a shell before coming to College...