Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties and complexities of a great University. In many instances, on such inquiry of study, he would doubtless withhold his criticism. And to rush into print, even into the print of the much too limited field of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, without knowledge of his facts, is obviously, unfair and often harmful to the University. In the Committee on Relations with the Alumni, and the Secretary for Alumni Affairs, is the machinery, gladly offered by the University, as a ready medium of communication between it and the alumni...
...predict his final decision, but everything argues against his with-holding the money merely because he wishes to discipline these officials. It seems unfair to put thousands of men's roses out of joint in order to admonish a few individuals. Besides, much as the President may sincerely demand small military budgets, and obedience in subordinates, as long as the government continues to use the National Guard as a substitute for increasing the regular Army and as a vital protection in time of civil disorder, he should not withhold pay appropriations and put the morale, as well as the efficiency...
...unfair to criticize the Senate's action in rejecting Mr. Warren as being obstructive and unreasonable, without a full examination of all the facts which were before the Senate when it acted," said Dr. John Dickinson, lecturer in the Government Department, in a statement to the Crimson last night...
That a man whose experience in world affairs has been as wide as Clemenceau's should deliberately decide not to mention in his volumes the political events in which he figured seems unfair. What ever abstract conclusions he may set down, the breath of life goes out of them when they are not definitely connected with human events. Men study the writings of great figures in history chiefly to gain the man's opinion of the events in which he figured, not to be regaled by philosophical abstractions. When a man passes eighty years, as M. Clemenceau has, the fruit...
...expression of one's views from an unbiased and impersonal standpoint--especially in its application to concerts, paintings, and the like. Certainly none but a most unmitigated neurastheniac would attempt to apply this somewhat broad definition to Mr. Thomson's effort of Saturday last. That there was something radically unfair about his "criticism" and his presumptuous attitude the following three points will, I hope, make clear...