Word: unjustly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...usefulness has become very popular. We have been waiting patiently till we should become seniors, in order that we might have the manifest advantage of just such instruction, and now our hopes are blasted. Let the faculty consider the case fairly, and I think they must see how unjust is their action. Or if it is quite impossible to have English VI, let us, at least, have some parallel course. What Harvard men need, perhaps, more than any other thing, is practice in public speaking. Hitherto this has been our only means of preparation, and now we are deprived...
...doing good work, but there is little doubt that it is the will of the students that a committee which is elected for conference only shall not have executive power. It may be urged that the basis of representation pursued in the choice of the conference committee will be unjust to the lower classes, if followed in the election of a committee like the yard committee, which will be brought into closer relations with the lower than with the higher classes. To this we may reply that what is just in the constitution of our representative committee may be fairly...
...action of Saturday's audience in hissing the award of one of the sparring bouts, unjust as it may have seemed, was a disgrace to our winter sports. It is to be hoped that Harvard men were not concerned in this ungentlemanly conduct...
...whenever we have done in justice to anybody we shall be informed of it at once. But we cannot close this editorial without again expressing our severe censure of "fresh" conduct of any sort, whether from freshmen or sophomores, or men of any other class. Our former remarks were unjust, only so far as they were not directed against the real offenders. Indeed, the offense from sophomores is more censurable than from freshmen...
...criticism on the Harvard Monthly that appeared in yesterdays paper, more especially in the portion relating to Mr. Sanford's story, the reviewer has forgotten some of the first elements of criticism; namely, that a literary work should be regarded as a whole, and that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips...