Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dead soldiers, it might seem that the profoundest answer to all these questions has been given by another French soldier, himself no mean artist, who gave up his young life for his country last year. "If fate claims the best," he wrote to his mother, "it is not unjust. The less noble who survive will thereby be made better. . . .Nothing is lost. . . The true death would be to live in a conquered country--for me above all others, as then my art could not exist." The notion that a man of genius is too precious to fight is, to some...
...previous letter I urged that we owe it both to the public and to ourselves to make clear the reasons for drilling on Sunday. It did not occur to me to say, as your correspondent of yesterday suggests, that the order for Sunday drill was unjust...
...discussing the benefit and pleasure that the fellows have gained from Mr. Clark's advice and encouragement; I do feel it only just to protest against the slight, but none the less utterly unjust criticism of a man who has constantly sacrificed his own interests for the benefit of Harvard track interests. RALPH H. HOWE...
...present situation of the Union was found to be unjust and intolerable for those who belonged and consequently supported it. The Union's income is derived entirely from membership fees and from any profit that there may be from the restaurant and from the sale of cigars and magazines, etc. Yet every year numerous public functions are held in the Union, such as class smokers, dinners, mass meetings, faculty receptions and dances, and lectures of one kind and another. In the case of undergraduate affairs, it has been estimated that in the last five years, only 55 per cent...
...least take pains to verify the facts advanced by it to support its arguments. When it states that "last year Captain Murray . . . was generally blamed by the rowing authorities for the defeat of the University crew at the hands of Yale" it makes a statement that is as unjust as it is untrue. As a matter of fact no other captain in the past few years has received such whole-hearted support and confidence from the rowing authorities, and no thought was further from their minds than to lay the blame for the defeat upon him. It is just such...