Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this matter in demanding that applicants be of all round development. As for the possibility that a man would become an undergraduate only as an athlete and not as a scholar, a careful scrutiny of scholastic records would determine his sincerity. In short, the present rule is unnatural and unfair. Change...
...distinction between a professional and an amateur athlete is often invisible to the naked eye. We have heard it said that one should be wary of carrying golf clubs for money; that sin makes one a professional golfer. The amateur rules may sound ridiculously strict, but they are not unfair, for the fact is that if there is to be any erring at all it must be on the side of strictness. Sport for sport's sake really does mean something! And this is particularly true of college athletics...
...reduction in personnel. The committee proposes also to limit each congressman and senator to two appointments to the Academy instead of five as has been the case during the last few years. This latter suggestion is an excellent way of providing for the future, but the first is manifestly unfair. Just why should the 1922 class be penalized while the other three classes are allowed to graduate and get their commissions...
There still seems to be need of a little clear thinking and plain speaking in regard to the men who get away with books from the reserved shelves in the Reading Room, or otherwise secure the exclusive use of them by unfair means...
Some of the wiser minds, however, have hit upon the idea of the limitation of propaganda as the best thing to tackle next. During the War, we heard much about German propaganda; now the Germans themselves are complaining about the unfair use of this "weapon". German spiritualists (and Germany is a very "spiritual" country) have alleged that the French and English mediums broke every provision of the Hague Treaty by their flagrant misuse of psychic forces during the "late unpleasantness". "Mass prayers", they charge, more often and often employed at given hours to send great currents of malignant thought--energy...