Word: right
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SWIFT JOHNSON, a young American, has gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, but being an alien his right to it is disputed, and the matter is to be argued before the University authorities...
...last recess, but none earlier; and, as a consequence, quite a number of claims - mine among them - were denied. It seems to me that this discrimination of the Directors between claims based on exactly the same grounds is more unfair, if possible, than the rule itself. If it is right that exemption from an unjust rule should be made in one case, why should it not be made in all cases...
...Crew themselves, as well as to the University at large, by the advantages of a race with Cornell. However, even if it be found inexpedient to enter the Henley at all, we must find no fault with men who are already doing more than the University has a right to expect of them. It has become common lately to suppose that the University has unlimited claim upon the few men who have supported our boating interests so well in the past; as if the excellence of service already performed constituted a claim to additional work in the future. We must...
Considering the length of time which it has taken to prepare these rules, we had a right to expect a perfect set; yet several small points indicate a lack of care in adapting them to our uses. Thus in fencing a 34-inch flat-bladed foil is required, though it is stated on good authority that there is hardly a foil of that description in the State. Rule 4 for vaulting refers to vaulting from a mat, a custom which is never practised here...
...that number should be increased. In the second case, the amount of work done in the course should be extended. In either case, the expedient of making it impossible for men to take electives without sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper. Our system is exactly contrary to the right one; the most crowded electives should be put at the best hours, for the greatest good of the greatest number; whereas the compiler of this year's schedule seems to have sought the greatest evil of the greatest number, by putting the large electives at nine, half past three...