Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conclusions were wrong. But, putting aside the whole question of foot-ball, we have still the base-ball game on our hands to deal with. Of this, we can only say what we stated in our former editorial, which the News, by its array of "facts," attempted to prove unfair. "It is evident, the News must concede, that if either team gains any advantage by playing the first game on its own grounds, in all fairness the custom ought to be that the game be played year by year alternately on the grounds of each team. This is the whole...
...Tennis Association in regard to the tenure of courts came up, the lateness of the season was urged against any radical change. Men had already gone to considerable expense in rolling and marking out their courts, and any material change in the existing state of affairs would be unfair to them. The justice of this plea was recognized and in the desire to observe the rights of individuals the rights of the body of tennis players were left to a considerable degree uncared for. This year, however, the case is very different, while last year the number of tennis players...
...meeting at the Co-operative Society yesterday morning that several men bought more than five tickets, the number which was fixed beforehand as the limit. They accomplished this by presenting at the desk one or more membership tickets not their own. It seems to us that this is rather unfair. That some men should be enabled to buy their tickets through a friend without any trouble to themselves seems unjust to the men who stand so long in line. Men may obtain in this manner good tickets, while some of those toward the end of the line may find, after...
...chief objection is that it debars all college clubs from practice with amateur teams, crews, etc., which are frequently made up of college graduates and of material as good socially as the undergraduate classes. It seems manifestly unfair to deprive all colleges of the opportunity of availing themselves of these advantages, because a few may not have within convenient distance precisely such amateur organizations as meet with the approval of the college authorities...
...case the college authorities are determined to appoint such instructors, we take it for granted that their salaries must come out of the college funds; for it would be manifestly unfair to call upon the students to subscribe money for instructors who might be personally unsatisfactory, and in whose choice they had had no voice. But if the students should refuse to subscribe, as they might do, unnecessary inroads would thus be made on the already oyer-taxed finances of the college...