Word: bias
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of their objectionable tendencies, the beneficial effects of athletic sports upon the development of the physique are evident. The nature of this development is governed by the constitutional bias of the individual, the sport in which he is engaged and the time devoted to it. There is, however, a general development which distinguishes the athletic from the nonathle ic class. Knowing as we do, the influence of physical activity upon the development of the individual, it is fair to presume that a like influence will be exerted on the development of a class...
...policy could be maintained by the executive. The disputants on the other side claimed that the legislative department was the chief and the executive, the servant, and that this measure would strengthen the latter at the expense of the former; that extreme measures would be enacted through the strong bias of the cabinet members, that their attention would be drawn from their official and more important work, and that the influence held by these men, under the proposed change, if not contrary to the letter of the constitution, was at least opposed to the spirit of that document...
...State than the fact that when the Readjusters came into control and secured a majority on the Board of Visitors, not only was no change make by them, though political passion urged it in the Faculty corps, but they filled vacancies occurring therein entirely regardless of political bias. That the University deserves this consideration is made clear by the pamphlet before us. In Mr. Jefferson's day the schools of Virginia were, to use his own words, "paltry academies." He is said to have spoken mournfully on one occasion of the fact that of the students at Princeton, one half...
...mistake to say that if the college marches in the Republican procession it will be an act of no political significance. The managers of the Independent movement have laid great stress on the fact that the young men of the country, being more free from party habits and party bias, can see Blaine's record in its true light, and are refusing to vote for him. If we march with the Republicans, then, this statement is disproved ; if we march with the Independents and Democrats, this statement is proven true. Moreover, as shown by Mr. Warner in your issue...
...undertaken a canvass of the college on the preferences for Presidential candidates. While the result of a canvass of this sort cannot fail to be of interest as showing the relative personal popularity of the different candidates, it will indicate only in a very slight degree the political bias of the students. We think that most Harvard men vote more for principles than for men. Therefore the votes of most students will be determined largely by the actions of the two parties between this time and the time of the election...