Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there is an element of unfairness to Harvard in these figures which should not be left uncorrected, By an examination of this year's Harvard and Yale catalogues it will be seen that the medical schools of the two universities are strictly local institutions. very few of the students in either coming from without New England; but the Harvard Medical School is nearly six times as large as that of Yale, and if the growth of the universities in New York and the rest of the countries is to be reckoned by the deceptive method of percentages, it is unfair...
...with Princeton? In the past she has behaved every bit as squarely as Harvard. We have had far more trouble with Yale: she has always been the tricky college, winning by fair means or foul, indifferently. At Mott Haven last year she won the cup from Columbia by an unfair decision, and New York club men spoke of the ungentlemanly conduct of her athletes, in contrast to all the other colleges...