Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thirdly: Yale accuses us of delaying our decision in regard to New York as long as possible. This is unfair. There was no authority in Cambridge to which the management could apply until the appointment of the Athletic Committee a week ago Friday. The managers of our team did their best to hurry matters up, and laid the question before the committee immediately. The committee decided that the game should not be played in New York, as every one knows...
Fourthly: Our management is accused of influencing the committee to decide against New York, thinking they might force Yale to come to Cambridge. This is as absurd as it is unfair and ungenerous. The foot-ball men could not influence the Athletic Committee. The votes of the overseers and of the faculty have time and again been against allowing Harvard to play in New York, and there was nothing else for the committee to decide. In fact they saved time by deciding at once...
...American. No tendency is shown to hide the evil that exists in the college communities, but there is a just demand that the evil shall not be magnified beyond its due proportion. One more protest is added to those which have already been uttered by the students against the unfair advantage accepted by the North American Review and its infamous contributor in order to strike a blow at he best interests of our University. The editorials are worthy the attention of all students...
...nature of the two courses is the same, and there is no apparent reason for the distinction. The new plan is a much better test of ability, and is much fairer than the old arrangement, as it does not give those who happen to possess good memories an unfair advantage over those who have worked as hard but cannot remember as well. The idea of returning the briefs to the juniors is an improvement over the course pursued last year, but it is still much inferior to the plan of giving a syllabus of the topic on the examination paper...
...more general conclusions that athletics are diverting the students from the object for which they are sent to college, I think, in order not to give an unfair picture, it should be stated that side by side with the increase in athletics, there has been a marked increase in the intellectual activity of the students. Formerly 33 per cent. was the minimum required in each course for a degree, I believe. Now the minimum is 40 per cent., and in addition to that, the student must stand above 65 per cent. in at least one-quarter of his studies...