Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should give way to the next generation. However ready we graduates may be to take advantage of the privileges which have been given us, I am much mistaken if there are not many who feel that, when it interferes with the interests of the undergraduates, the present system is unjust and ought to be reformed. Edward Robinson...
...writer, intimating that the Harvard undergraduate considers the war with Spain "unnecessary and unjust," and denouncing our law-makers as "unscrupulous," declares that it is yet necessary, under our faulty democratic government, to give the war an "unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers...
Hereafter, the rebate of ten cents per meal for absence on Sundays shall be for not more than five consecutive meals beginning with dinner on Saturdays. The old rule allowed rebate for six meals but was found unjust to those who remained at Memorial on Sundays in that the accounts showed that there was no saving by such Sunday absence and that the expense fell on those who were not absent...
...change in the original plans for the spring boating has been made. It has been found inadvisable to keep four substitutes with each of the class crews, thus depriving the Weld eights of their four best candidates, and being at the same time unjust to the men themselves, as the fours if formed could not receive much coaching and would miss the incentive of an important race...
...security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they are defeated by a team which is comparatively underrated...