Word: unfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these limitations, however, appeared to be necessary yesterday. There is no reason for disallowing free speech in an area such as Boston Common. Furthermore, the police were grossly unfair in their treatment of the three private and orderly citizens, two of whom were arrested after Hessian methods of coercion, failed to cow them. This should be made a test case. Law will have to be liberal to the extent of recognizing the difference between a sincere determination to preserve freedom and a volent misuse of it. The prominent citizens involved should see their convictions of right realized...
...midst of all the recent turbulent discussion of the evils attendant on overemphasis of football and superspectacle gate-receipts, there appeared the brilliant idea that the alumni might be willing to defray the expenses of our athletics by large annual contributions. At the time, the suggestion was condemned as unfair and impractical, and we are glad to see that it has finally been put to death by President Angell...
...Golden Arrow. Capt. Campbell was having a little trouble with the town of Daytona and the American Automobile Association about expenses for electric timing devices and payment of officials at the trials, not because he could not afford to put up the money himself but because he felt it unfair for him to pay his own judges...
...ultimately to blame. It is foolish to belabor the pupil, according to modern pedagogy, for not being interested in the subject-matter. The subject-matter must be vivified and personalized for the pupil. If it is to be of any value to him. Similarly, it is taking an unfair view of Detroit City undergraduates to assert wrong headedness on their side in failing to react to sports, dances, debates, and plays. What we do berate, however, is their lack of the initiative displayed by the students of the University of Wisconsin, not long ago, who petitioned the authorities...
...original break occured after the football season of 1926 when alleged roughness and unfair play on the part of both teams followed a series of interchanged slurs by the Harvard "Lampoon" and the Princeton "Tiger" which culminated in the Princeton-Harvard football program published by the "Lampoon" and bearing a cover depicting a pig in a sty saying to a much mired companion. "Come, brother, and root for deah old Princeton...