Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gain a place. Mr. Bemis had the gratification of beating his old rival, Ware, of Columbia, however. During the evening, Myers ran an exhibition 440 in 56 2-3, and Geary, ex-champion of England, ran an exhibition mile in 4-58 1-2. In spite of the almost unfair handicapping against them Harvard's delegates made a most creditable struggle, and the college ought to be proud of them...
However, all great reforms are directly attended with immediate disadvantages for some past society and the present generation of Harvard men must be contented with their unfair opportunities and look forward with satisfaction to the higher development of the coming generation. Harvard's radical move must gradually elevate the schools, but only very gradually can this be done, for, according to Mill "reform even of governments and churches is not so slow as that of schools." - The only means to this end is to increase the difficulties for admission from year to year, and let us hope that President Eliot...
...been omitted, that is, a period has passed without examinations, then we are sure that the present examinations have had more successful predecessors. But, nevertheless, we believe that the past few weeks have been exceptionally successful for their kind. Complaints about examination rooms, about proctors, about hard and unfair papers - with one notable exception - have been exceedingly rare. Evolution is at all times a slow process, but it is strangely slow in the case of the written examination. Still we sincerely believe that after dropping off its appendages, unnecessary and cumbersome, the proctors and long and hard papers, it will...
...system of definite working organizations. There is still the old cry for equality of rights and privileges (not for absolute equality of property); but Socialism's most sober aim is the preservation of all variety in talent, ability, etc. Inheritance is opposed, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, encouraging quarrels, and idleness, and vice. Let every man have what he earns, no more. Society should not be based on money, but on actual labor, whether mental or physical. Land, labor and capital, being differently apportioned, result in an exchange, which is controlled...
...must be watched and managed, then the evils attending college discipline will very readily disappear. The true way in which to meet this problem is to urge students to look at the subject in a clearer light, for students themselves to raise the student sentiment and discourage cribbing as unfair and unprofitable. Let the proctors be removed from examination rooms, make every man responsible to himself and college for honesty in examinations, let college sentiment be strongly impressed on everyone as to what honesty means, and then every cribber will feel that he is out of place, and the coolness...