Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent appointment of a committee to revise the eligibility rules in athletics calls attention particularly to two regulations which have lately done much to place Harvard at an unfair disadvantage in intercollegiate competition...
These men seldom cut College engagements; perhaps their record will show ten or twelve absences a year, surely all that is necessary. It would evidently be unfair to accuse this larger number of students with 32 cuts annually. But, on the other hand, there is a minority of men, many of them active in undergraduate affairs, whose continued cutting brings the average up to one per week for the whole College; and it is in this group that the present situation is really serious. Unlike their more intellectual class-mates, they are well-known, often as "good fellows," and hence...
...complaint that the "point system" was an unfair test of candidates for admission was certainly well founded. The new system will make it possible for the graduate of any secondary school which maintains a sufficiently high standard of work and includes Latin in its curriculum to meet the examination on an equal footing with a graduate of an admitted Harvard fitting school. Each school may therefore adopt a curriculum fitted to the needs of those not expecting to take college examinations, in fact, with the qualifications mentioned, any curriculum it sees fit, and still be as much a Harvard preparatory...
Since this is the case, it would seem the duty of those in charge of the Library building to provide for more adequate ventilation. During the present cold weather the atmosphere in the Reading Room has been literally foul, a condition which is unfair, unhealthy, and stupifying. It would seem at least the part of consistency in raising standards to furnish fresh, clean air, if only to make the studious efforts of undergraduates more effective and more attractive to the men themselves...
...regulations adopted by the Athletic Association for distribution of tickets for the Dartmouth and Yale games, contain provisions decidedly unfair to the Freshman and Sophomore classes. The report upon which these regulations are based assumes that preferment to graduates in applying for one seat should offset for the two lower classes the preference shown to graduates in applying for two. The relative numerical strength of the two classes proclaims this exchange unjust. If 1000 undergraduates are given better single seats than graduates, the latter will be moved not more than a section either way. If 3000 graduates apply...