Word: unjustly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...palliate the offence, we must agree with a growing college sentiment, which says that such punishment is too severe for the crime committed. To impose the same penalty for this as attends the most flagrant offences against morality and the college discipline, seems a trifle unjust...
...very glad to have the Advocate define her position in regard to the Conference Committee, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with her in the views expressed in the last issue. If our former criticism was unjust, it was due to the interpretation we placed on the editorial in the sixth number, and our zeal to see the Conference Committee meet with fair play in the college press...
...individual proficiency assumes, first, the absolute equality of studies different in kind, and then, as a natural consequence, the infallibility of per cents as a common measure of knowledge of these different studies. Both these assumptions are so plainly absurd and inconsistent with our theory of education, and the unjust character of their actual operation is so well known, that I will not stop here to prove the inadequacy of our present system of marking and ranking. But the very absurdity of the system will serve to point out the way to reform...
...main object of all our examinations is to test individual proficiency with sufficient definiteness to enable the university to bestow its degrees and honors. Any such testing, however, must evidently be based on the character of individual work; otherwise it is not merely unjust, but it is a farce, pretending to represent what it really ignores. Now the character of individual work at Harvard varies with every man, and is resolvable only into the nature of the several courses he pursues. We must, therefore, lay down as a general rule for every examination, that it shall represent, in its method...
...plague of the state was the irresponsible spirit which pervaded all classes. The early political life of the state was influenced largely by the presence of Southern politicians, so that finally the Democratic party was in the ascendant. The American treatment of the natives was throughout cruel and unjust. They called them bad names and tried every possible means to make them feel that they were as degraded as they were painted. The course of social conservatism was advanced by the very existence of political sin, because the personal ambitions of various leaders were pitted against each other...