Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Herald says: The delivery of Jones, the Yale pitcher, is said to have been so unfair in the Metropolitan games as to provoke considerable comment, and it is said that, unless he makes some change in his delivery, the college teams will kick. In view of the futile efforts of the league to enforce legislation on this point, the action of the collegians will be watched with interest...
...Gunn, of the senior class of Williams College, has declined the honors of valedictorian on the ground that he has always considered the system of marking used in the college as unfair and operating to the detriment of some of the students. Mr. Gunn holds a better average standing than has been reached at Williams in many years...
...opposed to these departments comes the department of mathematics, in which there were about one hundred men to two professors, one assistant professor (who is now a professor) and two tutors. This is manifestly unfair to the other departments. In this department, the men who take the courses do not begin to pay the salary of the instructors. It seems as if the men are leaving the departments where they are most needed. Our Greek department has long been the pride of our university, and it is closely followed in popularity by the department in philosophy, which has, of course...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The opinion is freely expressed that the action of last Tuesday's cooperative meeting, in cutting off the Scientific School from representation on the board of the proposed Cooperative Society, was not only unfair to the school, but inconsiderate of the interests of the society. It appears from the catalogue (which makes no account of the number of students who have entered the Scientific School since October) that the Scientific is numerically as strong as either the Divinity or the Theological schools. It seems to me that the Cooperative Society will need help from every available source...
...support, or because of the friendly interest of associates, a few have prospered, and although it must be confessed that this lamentable fact is often due to the inertness and indifference of those who should be chiefly interested and would be most benefitted by student enterprises, yet it is unfair to lay the entire blame for the usual failure to this cause alone. It is much to be questioned whether it is not often the case also that the too ambitious aims of managers and the unbusiness-like character of the organization, is responsible for the outcome. Well, then, what...