Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature. But certain of the alumni have already voiced their disapproval. In the "Transcript" last evening one alumnus was quoted as saying, "Alumni who have boys preparing to enter the University are beginning to express themselves very forcibly against the committee which put through this rule. It is extremely unjust to deprive a boy of his points when he has earned them by hard work and has been willing to sacrifice his whole vacation, in many cases, or part of it, to earn them...
...nature was not such as to make him eager to investigate the complexities of involved political questions, and his military training was calculated to give him a strange distaste for such investigations." A caricature more libelous could hardly be conceived. To call Lee a simple-minded man is as unjust as in these days of Modernism to suggest that he had a perfect trust in God's providence...
...help! He's sinking!' . . . 'Hell,' said Jones. Then he cornered Arootoo! . . ." Such statements, several to the page, enlighten this novel by Robert W. Service, loud versifier. The narrative concerns one Jerry Delane, whose career as a respectable member of society is cut short by an unjust imprisonment for safecracking. He becomes a pug, a hobo, a beachcomber, breaks noses in Frisco, hearts in Papeete. All these things Mr. Service has himself experienced; he also was once a reporter-doubtless a good one. In this book he has written a thrilling news-story...
...that we had to send a messenger to get the book in his room. Later, when fined 50 cents for the service, he replied with a very sarcastic letter, in which he enclosed a dollar, which was "to be given to any student too poor to pay such an unjust fine...
...paper or magazine to try to make things worse between the two countries. I am a French girl who worked for the American Red Cross during the War, stand for and help all the Americans I can over here; but I feel hurt at the printing of such an unjust news. JEANNE MARTIN. The item is herewith reproduced...