Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word perhaps regarding that poor woman in Canton. Now supposing this to be a fact attested by unbiased witnesses, would it be fair--unless it can be proved that it is an everyday occurrence--to condemn a people wholesale from one instance? As well consider the recent case of the New England clergyman Richeson as typical and condemn the whole American society! And apart from that, are there not even in the civilized West instances of suffering--unrelieved suffering--so heartrending as to lead some of the most thoughtful of men to turn pessimistic and pronounce modern civilization...
...University crew coach, in conjunction with a number of students and graduates of the University. There are at present in Chicago three duplicates of the caravels of the fleet in which Columbus caravels of the fleet in which Columbus discovered America, brought over from Spain for the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. With these three caravels, the Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina, Mr. Stephenson and his companions plan to sail down from Chicago through the drainage canal and thence down the Mississippi, across the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and up the Pacific Coast...
Notable are Mr. Gilbert's delightful article on music among the North American Indians and Mr. Eschman's clear exposition of the operatic situation in Germany which bids fair to assume international importance. Then there is critical discussion of four operas recently produced in this country, one of them by an American. Mr. Hall's article on M. Aubert is particularly apt in that the first American performances of his opera "La Foret Bleue" are now taking place in this city...
With the current Advocate, the new board makes its first bow to the College public; and on the whole the number is creditable. The first editorial, "An Appeal to the Fair Minded," makes a plea for the addition to the tablets in Memorial Hall of the names of the Harvard men who fell fighting under the Stars and Bars. This question has been for some time agitated in the graduate publications as well as in the Advocate; we may hope that,--perhaps with the aid of the Forum,--its resurrection will result in a more satisfactory decision. But perhaps...
...would not be fair to Mr. H. L. Rogers to judge "The Petty Larcenist" on the instalment plan. The most that we can ask of a serial is that it will help dispose of the next issue; and we can be reasonably sure that those who have made the acquaintance of S. Mosbaugh White, Esq., will want to know how he fared at El Paso...