Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defining the terms "trust" and "pool" Professor Durand stated that there were three main plans for dealing with these two forms of combination. The first of these, "laissez faire," he defined as the policy of having the government prohibit the trusts from using all monopolies, price discriminations and other unfair competitive methods, but otherwise to let them continue as they are. This policy is dangerous, for the growth in power of many of the trusts has not been due to any of these things, but rather to the practice of buying up their competitors and the willingness of these competitors...
Again, the Council intends no unfairness to Yale or Princeton. No written agreements exist between these universities about debating. Each university has always been willing to meet any representatives whom the others might send. Two years ago, Harvard limited the number of graduates to three without asking Yale or Princeton to do the same. We simply felt that it was for our own good. Statistics do not bear out the statement that the mere presence of graduates produces unfairness. Since intercollegiate debating began here, Harvard has used 20 graduates and Yale 22 in Harvard-Yale debates. In Harvard-Princeton debates...
...with the first team nor the second, though of more ability than the second team man who wins an "H2nd," receives no recognition; the member of the second four-oared crew, in spite of working down to the eve of the Yale race, receives none--a condition very evidently unfair...
...best athletic authorities in the country as legitimate) differs much from a spirit that would permit scouting Dartmouth's signals from the side-lines during the Harvard game before the eyes of 30,000 spectators? If the scouting of signals at a game is discountenanced as unsportsmanlike and unfair, should not the scouting of plays during an entire season be considered in the same category...
...capable of producing enough sound to drown out the best organized cheering or the most effective singing. They are the type of noise-producer that a great crowd going to a professional baseball game desires to employ to "rattle" the opposing pitcher and to give the favorite team an unfair advantage. In other words, "clappers" are the instruments of a partition crowd which is unwilling to give the opposing team a fair chances to do its best. So before any student purchases one of these mechanical noise-producers, he should consider carefully what would be the combined effect...