Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once more the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken up an unjust situation and helped the minority for the good of the country. Since New England is thickly settled it must obtain many staples and most of its raw materials from other states; and it must depend on the railroads to bring them. In spite of their great importance these roads have been in a precarious financial condition for some time. All the roads of the country have had hard sledding recently, but there are three difficulties peculiar to those of New England...
...seems particularly unjust to many men; who, because they have taken five courses in either their sophomore or junior year, need but three courses to complete their work for a degree; that they should be forced to expend their efforts on a course that they neither need nor desire. To them, the work means wasting an opportunity that they will never have again; whereas they have, except for a rule that now has little reasonable foundation, completely satisfied the normal and legitimate requirements for a degree...
...suppose that because psychology of crowds is a fact its results are therefore right; or that, because organization and machinery furnish a powerful weapon for propagating ideas on the part of those who believe in them, the ideas themselves are therefore correct. The weapon may be used for an unjust or unwise movement as well as for one that is just and wise...
...University, except perhaps in the courses themselves. This fact has long been recognized by the authorities, as the tuition price of $200 for four courses and the price of $20 for an extra course shows. This increase of 250 percent in the price of extra courses in unjust and uncalled for unless it has some beneficial effects, which have not been made evident...
...this increase strikes most harshly and is unjust to the men who intend to complete their course in three years. The great majority of there men are earnest students of small means, who wish to save money by studying harder and completing their course early. This increase means not only that these men will not be able to effect the saving of a year's tuition which is usually being saved for some graduate school, but also that they will be charged as much for three years' residence as the other students are charged for four years, though their three...