Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first view has received a kind of sanction from what seem to me some very unfair statements of Mr. Lloyd George in which he has accused Poland of being the aggressor. The people who make this charge usually try to prove it by pointing to the Polish expedition to Kiev last May and seem to imagine that the war began with this expedition, and that Poland thereby needlessly and wantonly challenged Russia...
...would allow the participation of men of hardened age in contests against boys hardly out of their teens; and it would make the introduction of "ringers" temptingly easy. Above all it would give the University with large graduate schools, law, medical and business faculties, a tremendous and obviously altogether unfair advantage over the college without such graduate enrollment. It seems certain that Pennsylvania's action will be looked upon with distinct disfavor among Eastern colleges...
There is obviously something unfair in the attitude that forces an instructor to impose petty requirements on a course in order to free it from the stigma of classification as a snap. The system is wrong that compels a professor to act toward his classes as a policeman continually watching for minor infringements of obscure ordinances that would never be necessary if the student could learn to interpret broadly and honestly the spirit of a few inclusive laws...
...Much brutal and unfair play would be prevented...
...this emphasizes the error, to put it mildly, which Mr. Palmer has committed. Apparently stung by a defeat of the institution of which he was once a member he has not hesitated to publicly accuse guests of the University of unblemished reputation of being grossly negligent and unfair, and sets up his puerile dissatisfaction as the measure by which to judge a decision rendered by men whose business it is to make continually unbiased decisions in far weightier matters than were here involved. Unfortunately Mr. Palmer's letter has not been confined to University circles where perhaps it would...