Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although each House cannot have its own Widener, the libraries ought to be supplied with a minimum of books in all departments. A distinct lack in any subject would be unfair to men concentrating in that field. There is, however, no reason to expect a complete duplication of books among the Houses. Through gifts or through special interest of its staff in some subject, each House may very possibly build up an unusually good collection in some field...
...only the unfair restrictions of the city that smother the Boston stage. With two exceptions, the public press of the city is concerned with the theatre only as an advertising agent. The healthy atmosphere of interested and intelligent criticism that lends interest to the stage in other cities of similar size is entirely lacking here. This fact, along with unintelligent censorship and a general lack of a real theatrical interest on the part of the public almost justifies the statement that Boston gets only what it deserves...
...aspects of the chain store monopolies were considered both from the outer effects and from the inner workings. The harmful social effects were emphasized strongly by the University speakers, who claimed that this system was perpetuated by practices both unfair and distinctly injurious to the American people...
...Raskob for injecting Prohibition into the meeting brought boos and hisses from the audience. Angrily he exclaimed: "Oh, your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
...surely unreasonable to ignore the ability which some men have in Spanish and demand from them work in French or German. The demand is doubly unfair in the case of those who come from schools where German is not taught. German classes, excluded during the war under pressure of hysterical anti-Bocheism, have in many cases been replaced by Spanish. Particularly this is true in small Eastern and many Western high schools. While the lack of opportunity to study German is unfortunate, the University ought nevertheless to take the fact into consideration...