Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wooden ships by the thousand. But an even greater question is involved; for the stability of our industries, the very prosperity of the country, depends in large part on our overseas shipping facilities. On account of the lack of ships our exporters have suffered severely from excessive freight rates, unfair discrimination in favor of foreign competitors and, in many cases, actual loss of business. The great factor in correcting these conditions and stabilizing our home industries will be re-establishment of the merchant marine which will restore to American industry the control of the distribution and sale of its products...
...concerning the probable course of the University authorities after the declaration of war seems to have been some-what exaggerated. The authorities have no intention of cutting short the college year for everyone, or of turning the entire University into a military training school. Such action would be obviously unfair to those who for one reason or another are ineligible for service...
Such a stand generally evokes the charge of a rank utilitarianism which requires us to cut ourselves off from the past and confine our efforts to the narrow limits of material advantage. But here the critics are unfair. One of the cardinal requisites of the useful man is an intimate knowledge of the past. He must have in mind an historical background in order to distinguish real progress from false and estimate the value of modern movements. Without this alert consciousness of the historical evolution of morals and customs, society would resemble the man who has lost his memory...
With the abolition of the elective system now in vogue there will also be removed the necessity for that repelling practice of "bootlicking"; there will be removed that unjust and unfair splitting up of the two upper classes into groups which form the "big clubs" and the "little clubs"; there will be obliterated the unwarrantable award which comes to a man when elected to a so-called "big club"; there will be eliminated the stigma which attaches to membership in no club; there will be destroyed that feeling of almost insignificance which members of small clubs have...
...weeks have been a blot on the record of the Class of 1917 and a disgrace to Harvard College. For a long period of years the most important of undergraduate elections have maintained a tone of dignity and have been naturally free of clashes resulting from childish suspicions of unfair nominations...