Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question can be settled. The winners of the Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge races could race together merely to test the relative abilities of those four colleges. This would probably be popularly known as a contest for the world's championship though such a claim would be manifestly unjust to Cornell if allowed. But if the proposed contest should come off at all it is far more likely that the English Crew, the Cornell crew and the winner of the Harvard-Yale contest will row in a triangular race. A third and not at all unlikely solution of the question...
...Sunday opening would be against the best interests of the American people. - (a) Demoralizing: Our Day, VIII. 259. - (b) Against the sentiment of a large majority: Our Day, IX, 695; Christian Advocate, Dec., 1891. - (c) Saloon keepers unanimously favor it: Our Day, IX, 697, 698. - (d) Unjust to the workingman. - (1) Takes away their rest day: Our Day, IX, 696. - (2) Against their own desire: Ibid; Crafts, Civil Sabbath, 29, 42; Sabbath for Man, 654, 656; Pamphlet No. 1. - (3) Dangerous to their future rest day: Pamphlet No. 3, p. 2 - (4) Discommodes vastly more workingmen than it accommodates...
...this sweeping vote is strictly adhered to there will be no freshman musical clubs hereafter. It will be a unwise and an unjust act on the the part of the faculty...
...Sophomore Theatricals may do no good the freshman. Musical Clubs do. This action is decidedly unfair, and if the vote is rigidly enforced it will kill all freshman musical organizations. In view of the two important arguments in their favor a rigorous enforcement of this vote will be decidedly unjust...
...large field and with dramatic interest, and the theory had been triumphantly sustained. The white man at first sought only his self-interest and drove the Indian away; then, to quell rebellion, he must pacify him with reservations: now he has come to realize that this is unjust to both sides, - the Indian is kept out of the American life, and the white man is kept out of the Indian's land. The result is that he sees he must do right by the Indian, that he must educate him for a place in our civilization. The century of dishonor...