Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...July 9, was the occasion for their third joint appearance, and it was here that Merrill was hustled by a crowd of roughs who had bet against him, and who found that the only way to save their money, when the judges ruled out all of his opponents for unfair walking, was by preventing Merrill himself from finishing the distance and thus have all bets declared "off" on the ground of there being "no race." This blackguardism was the more unfortunate as at the time it happened Merrill bid fair to eclipse all previous amateur records at the distance...
...frequently absent. If the Faculty has seen fit to make a rule which gives us voluntary recitations, professors have no right to take an independent position and to state that men will find it advantageous not to cut. Provided a man write an accurate examination-paper, it is decidedly unfair to take absences into consideration in making up the marks of any elective. In addition, a professor lowers himself who attempts by threats to prevent a man from cutting. We trust that we shall have no further ground for complaint, as this treatment of students serves to put them once...
While it is the privilege of elderly graduates to give as many interesting facts about life at Harvard in the past as they please, it is certainly unfair for them to hint that the representatives of the University have ever competed for "liberal purses." It is a pity that a journal, even if "unofficial," of such prodigious circulation as the Register, should give any such impression to the world about our Athletic representatives who work faithfully for the University...
Both Captain Collins and Mr. Bigelow agreed that the quarters occupied by Harvard last year were such as they would be unwilling to use themselves. They were also willing to admit that there was nothing unfair in the position taken by Harvard, in being unwilling to go to New London unless good quarters could be obtained...
...Certainly hard, and pitiful, too. Who knows but that It has aspirations for some active, ardent sphere? Who knows but that It bravely struggles against a feeling that will come up, of a lot that is unjust? Of an ugliness, - no, not an ugliness, - a homeliness that is unfair? And are there not vain yearnings, useless regrets? Who can say? But is there not a pathos in this being so willingly unselfish, so mutely self-sacrificing...