Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manifestly it is unfair and absurd to complain because one or two unusual plans of study fail of realization through the inevitable changes in the courses given but such cases are not exceptional by any means. It should be possible to announce a year or so in advance those definitely to be omitted, and the custom now occasionally followed of announcing courses as given in alternate years could be made a fixed rule. Such procedure might add to the burden, already heavy, of the compilers of information, but the assistance it would contribute would be almost invaluable particularly in these...
...increasing attacks made against their political and social right and life, especially since the Great War. He asserted that the Negro's faith in the rightcons purpose of the Federal Government was sagging as the black population found itself ever more closely surrounded with a sentiment of antagonism intentionally unfair...
...surface, this appears unfair, just as it is hard not to feel a sneaking sentiment of sympathy for the Lucifer of "Paradise Lost". Rebels against the established order of things have from time immemorial found themselves butting a stone wall. And in the case of would-be Adams, usually sensationalists, the stone wall is too well-founded to give much but a crushing rebuttal...
...sincere and brave, and it merits something of discussion. I think we are all shocked at the lurid sensationalism of the past few days; we all believe that the persons who fed the gaping maws of the press have committed the act unforgivable. Yet, is it not unfair to ascribe to the Jewish students alone, an account obviously concocted from various sources, colored by the feverish imagination of burrowing reporters, and from its very nature, purporting to sympathize with the "suppressed minority" whose suffering is "exposed"? I am particularly sorry that Mr. MacVeagh, in his righteous indignation, has fallen into...
...student had taken his April hours before-being notified that he had gone on probation at mid-years. Mean while the culprit enjoys the feeling of Damocles. Release is equally hard, and often there is a second period of waiting, similarly protracted, and far more irksome and seemingly unfair than the other...