Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen speak in high terms of the gentlemanly manner in which they were entertained by their opponents of Wednesday. Perhaps an editorial which appeared in the Yale News of Wednesday morning had something to do with Yale's refraining from that discourteous and unfair treatment which characterized her tactics not many years since...
...reason why the members or any member of the nine itself should be run drown, simply because they did not succeed in defeating their opponents. I suppose it is natural for a nine to be condemned because it has suffered reverses; it is an almost universal, though most unfair, custom. But I see no reason why any particular man should be blamed because he failed to bring victory from almost sure defeat. The freshmen played their best, but were out fielded and out-batted. But inasmuch as they did their best to win from Yale, they should receive the credit...
...suspicion that combinations will be formed against her by the rival colleges, for, under the proposed rules of the new association, a unanimous consent would be necessary for the adoption of any important measure. Such a suspicion is unmanly, and would be justifiable only in the supposition of previous unfair action on the part of Yale herself...
...means allow of three crews racing upon it at the same time. The best crew, through the position allotted it, may be left far behind, and the worst crew come in many lengths ahead. Is it not shameful that three great colleges should agree to such an unfair arrangement as this? At all events, no decision should be made until a thorough exposition of the facts conceining the capacities and peculiarities of the Thames River course has been made by some of those who are more or less familiar with that body of water...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - In the new "Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College," there is one rule that seems to be very unfair. I refer to the clause in section 27 relating to degrees cum laude, in which it is distinctly stated that no student who has ever fallen below grade C (I suppose the old 55 per cent.) shall be recommended for such a degree. I don't see how the new regulations can be regarded as an improvement on the old ones, when such a rule exists. In the old regulations, a man had simply to make...