Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...high fly, the one calling out "I have it" should be allowed to take the ball, and should be reassured by such words as "Take it" from the other player. Such signals will prevent a recurrence of the discouraging mistakes of yesterday, for which it would be unfair to blame...
This year the autumn term was about 12 weeks long, the winter term will be about 15 weeks and the spring term less than 8, including the examination period. Such a division of the year's work seems extraordinarily unequal; and, if nothing else, manifestly unfair to those students who, having friends or relatives in other colleges or schools which as usual have the Easter recess at the beginning of April, naturally expected to be able to see them during the vacation...
...draws her men for the freshman crew. At Columbia we draw our candidates entirely from the freshman classes in the Schools of Arts and Mines. At Pennsylvania we understand they are taken from the first classes of all the different departments, graduate or undergraduate. It would be manifestly unfair to race crews, drawn in such a different way that it would give one college almost three times as many men to draw from as the other...
...error, there is no denying that the acoustic properties of the new lecture room are thoroughly wretched. In the back rows, especially when the room is full, it is often impossible to hear anything which is being said on the platform. It seems in this case particularly unfair to condemn the end of the alphabetical list to an attendance from which they can scarcely hope for much profit...
...size of the rooms and their unsatisfactory equipment are far from suggesting the great importance of the work done by the Dean, the Secretary and the Recorder, while ignoring the difficulties which attend the performance of that work. In the case of the Recorder, for instance, it seems very unfair that the necessary annoyances of his position should be aggravated by any lack of facilities for the execution of his duties. His office, which the Dean well terms a kind of gangway, offers wretched accommodations for himself and the subordinate clerks who aid him in the extensive and elaborate book...