Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every year there is more or less complaint and recrimination about the use of reserved books in the Library Reading Rooms. A few students persist in taking unfair advantage of the liberal rules; and by hiding themselves or using some other sort of strategy, defeat the purpose of the "reserved" book system, which is to give everyone the same opportunity to use books which are in great demand. Obviously, when there are two or three books which have to be read by a whole class no individual is justified in carrying off one of those rare volumes...
President Lowell also considers a system of elimination, but seems to prefer for the qualification of an applicant his school record and his character as far as it can be ascertained. The results of such procedure must be at best unfair and indecisive, for "with the schools as unequal as they are in the United States", often with widely different standards, the records could hardly be compared; while no satisfactory means has yet been devised for forming snap judgments of a boy's character, far less of comparing characters. And "personal interviews wherever possible" would be as unjust to those...
...Renewed Abuse. "This work, of the national committee solemnly done after full hearings a few days ago in Washington, under the orders of our opponents, was nullified and the scandalous and unfair representation accorded Southern states in past conventions was again given them." (TIME...
...moved Mr. Garner to say: "I think it is an outrage. I do not hesitate to say it is indefensible when Mr. Mellon has given out the practical contents of the bill and three newspapers have published parts of it, for the committee to hold it up. It is unfair to the rest of the press and to the country...
...Russian Charges: Tchicherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, declared the Hughes documents to be unmitigated forgeries. Steklov, author of the editorial, claimed that his words had been misrepresented by the choice of unfair passages and by the addition of matter not in the original, "a conscious forgery...