Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been overhauled by previous Student Councils, but their recommendations have been shelved or blocked in some department before they ever reached the Faculty. By the time that the class of 1915, after being in the toils for three years, became Seniors, the orals had grown so odious and unfair that the recent movement to reform them was unusually aggresive...
...lies the value. Athletics are not a business; they are recreation. And the moment their benefits are restricted to a few, they lose their fundamental value. This early cutting naturally deprives many men of their favorite regular exercise. The many are sacrificed for the few. This seems at once unfair and undemocratic. It is hoped that some plan may be effected whereby the men who are not yet of University crew calibre, can continue without interference to the regular crews in their competitive training...
...back the money the college has lent them is hard to understand. The fact that such loans are "debts of honor" should be enough to insure their speedy repayment. The men who do not pay back this money are doubly culpable. Not only do they take an unfair advantage of the University, but they prevent other men from enjoying the help they enjoyed...
...grouped the objections to the cause as coming from two main sources: the primary and greatest emanating from man's confident, although unfair belief, that women can never become competent voters, and therefore would be a detriment to good government; the second and less worthy objection being the fear possessed by a majority of men that women would venture beyond their sphere of duties...
...labor of a human being is not a commodity of commerce." "Combinations of laborers to raise wages are lawful; combinations of organizations to lower wages are unlawful. Why should labor organizations be excluded from the jurisdiction of interstate law and directors of corporations included?" Many other provisions seem palpably unfair, but time will tell whether the acts of the Federal Trade Commission will in the end be beneficial to the country at large...