Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This procedure is literally doing things by halves. The only practical as well as the only fair thing to do is to let this work count as a third of a course. It is bad enough juggling with thirds and two thirds without introducing the doubly complicated element of sixths. Give the Junior Company some real credit for what they have done. To their disappointment at being too young to enter the regular service ought not to be added the disappointment of having unrecognized what sincere efforts they have been able to make...
...Massachusetts Institute, of Technology, which may be taken as a fair example of a higher technical collegt, almost all of the men have been studying during the past two summers, with the result that the class of 1918 was graduated last January, and the class of 1919 received their degrees ten days ago, and almost all of its members are already in the service. Thus, Technology has been able to place well grounded engineers at the disposal of the country eight months ahead of the regular time...
Although this is a fair showing on the part of the Juniors for the editorial competition and by the Freshmen for both news and business, many more candidates are still needed. The number of Sophomores who came out for both news and business is surprisingly small, and there is an excellent opportunity for many more members of the class of 1921 in both of these departments...
...athletics at a particular time, but it denotes an athlete. No standard of athletic ability can be set, but in general it would be inopportune to give the letter to the members of this year's teams. Not only would it misrepresent them, but it would not be fair by comparison to the men who have won the "H" regularly in past seasons...
...demanded of the railroads until just before our entrance in the war they were scarcely able to make both ends meet. Rates had become so low and restrictions so stringent that all improvements or new investments were impossible. The point had been reached where private industry and even a fair transportation efficiency were incompatible...