Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hour. In other courses also, books have been opened and passed from proctor to proctor and treated much as copies of the Lampoon or Life might have been. Probably nothing could have been farther from the minds of the writers than the production of jokes and this unfair treatment of their work has been justly condemned. It would seem that men old enough to be graduates of College would be old enough to mind their own business. Certainly it arouses no friendly feeling in a man to see a blue book which has been prepared for fair examination, ridiuled...
...competition is unfair because in the graduate departments men have more time for preparation for the contests, than the undergraduates, in consequence of the graduate work being more of an optional nature...
...students in any graduate or professional school, and all specials. The motion naturally met with opposition from Pennsylvania; for, if agreed to, it would cut out all but four of her next year's team, including her captain. Her delegates protested that any discrimination against the schools was unfair, and their opinion so far prevailed that the decision of the matter was postponed till a later meeting, to be held some time within two weeks. If the proposition had been carried out Balliet of Princeton and Graves of Yale would also be debarred, but the University of Pennsylvania would suffer...
...attitude of Harvard and Yale in refusing to admit Cornell into the race at New London has been characterized as unfair and unsportsmanlike. There is of course another side to this, but it is interesting to note the efforts which are being taken to bring about a race and the possible outcome. Cornell certainly considers the time ripe to make a stand and if possible to assert her rights to be considered on an equal footing with Harvard and Yale in aquatics. It is hardly possible however that she could induce either college to favor a triangular race for next...
...turn to more detailed criticism: The "graduate article," this time by Mr. Santayana, is entailed "A Glimpse of Yale." It would be manifestly unfair to critcize such an article without a pretty thorough knowledge of Yale, but one who is not perfectly acquainted with the manners and customs of the "Elis" finds difficulty in making out just what conclusion the author is attempting to reach, unless perhaps it is that Yale is the leading American university, a conclusion which is palpably untenable...