Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...year, while those who have already rowed should consider the peculiar position in which we are placed, and lend their assistance. If any men intend to try at all, they should not put off training until the spring. That would be a risky experiment, as well as being unfair to those who go to work in the autumn. Three years of victory - earned by perseverance and energy - ought to set a fitting example for those who would win in future...
...away a suggestion advocating the admitting of Freshmen to the Tree on Class Day next, is, to say the least, illogical in his arguments and narrow in his views. He talks of "pleasing the Freshmen at the expense of the other classes," in a tone which is arrogant and unfair...
Sayre of Columbia won the mile-walk very easily, in 7 minutes 49 seconds, Emmerich of Lehigh College second, in 7 minutes 56 seconds, and Huidekoper of Harvard third, in 7 minutes 56 1/5 seconds. In this contest, Emmerich's walk was so manifestly unfair from start to finish that it should have been ruled out at an early stage of the race. Huidekoper walked extremely well, and has had very hard luck in being ruled out at the Columbia Sports for running, and in losing the second prize in the Intercollegiate Sports; since to the incompetency of Mr. Bauermeyer...
...recognized by the Dining Association had been included therein. The rule of the Association on which the Auditor's action was based, seemed manifestly so opposed to common sense, that I petitioned the Directors to be exempted from its provisions. At their meeting on Wednesday the Directors acknowledged the unfairness of the rule by rescinding it. Other petitions for deduction for the same reason as mine came before them, however. They voted to allow deductions covering the last recess, but none earlier; and, as a consequence, quite a number of claims - mine among them - were denied. It seems...
...have a very low per cent, and I feel that you ought to have more, because I know from your recitations that you have done good work; but as you did not write the whole paper in French I was obliged to mark you low." What can be more unfair, since the length of the paper compels one, in order to finish it, to write in English? What would be the result were the same arbitrary rule applied to Greek or German? Half the men would be conditioned. This is a case, I think, that deserves investigation...