Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...comparing the circumstances that the different nines had to meet, and estimating results in the light of these circumstances. Judging the work of the nine in the first way, one would have to say that it had been very poor; but we believe that such comparison is unjust. Judging their work in the second way, one sees that while sometimes they have done inexcusably poor work, they have on the whole done just about what was to be expected...
Cheering like any applause should be spontaneous, or it loses its point-and it should be given for the good play of any player, or it is markedly unjust and stupid. A team from another college comes to Cambridge to play with usand the men are our guests...
Exactly what form the permanent arrangement would take we do not know. The chief thing asked by the students would be that the social life be not seriously disturbed. If the arrangement were to be permanent, we should think it unjust to keep general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit...
...place where these men naturally want to practice is in the Theatre. On Monday and Tuesday afternoons of this week, two or three of the contestants, with private instructors of elocution, secured the hall and held it by locking the door for three consecutive hours. Is this not manifestly unjust to the remaining seven or eight...
...time for unjust criticism, but rather for unhesitating support. Because things look bad, there is all the more reason why the University should show its appreciation of honest effort. We believe that Harvard men have as much pluck as Yale men, that the quality of courage and persistence produced in Cambridge is not a whit below that in New Haven. But now is a time for Harvard pluck to be proved, for Harvard to make every one believe that she is not dismayed because the odds are heavily against her, but that she will give her team the heartiest support...