Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ever going to build up a truly national musical culture and a truly national opera" said Mr. Beck, "it is absolutely essential that we train young American singers and give them a fair chance. That American voices are as good as any that can be found in the world is proved by the few great American singers who have surmounted tremendous obstacles and become world famous...
...group of men have the right, as in the case of the miners, to starve and freeze the whole population of the country. But the public has its own responsibilities in regard to every unit in its composition; it must prove to every faction that it stands for fair play even above and against its own interests. When, and only when, the confidence of labor in the public has been won, will we see a tendency towards arbitration in wage and working-hour disputes...
With Dartmouth encouraged by its unexpected draw with Colgate, and Pennsylvania jolted out of its overconfidence, the contest bids fair to be one of the hardest fought staged this year...
Boston's police strike is the motive for two articles. The first, "Pan and the Populace," by Mr. Fuller, is a readable account of the author's experiences on volunteer patrol duty. Mr. Garrison's "A Plan for the Police," a sound and fair-minded discussion of the police problem, typifies the stand that the re-born Advocate has taken for enlightened liberalism...
...book of which only one copy has reached the libraries of Greater Boston, certain lovers of learning usually appropriate it from the shelves of Widener two days before the hour examination and browse through it. When the examination has passed the book reappears. Common considerations of honesty and fair play do not deter these people; they brave the fear of discovery and the wrath of the librarian in their omnivorous search for knowledge. To call these people schoolboys is to understate the case; a schoolboy sometimes doesn't know any better...