Word: fairer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...counted he is hardly represented by the hour examinations. Why the thesis cannot take the place of the hour examination we cannot see. The faculty profess the greatest desire to abolish the test system and at the same time they enforce it in courses where better and fairer tests have already been given. The inconsistency is apparent. It is our humble opinion that the examination system, to say nothing of the amount of written outside work required in various courses, is being pushed to an extreme...
...will be seen, the new regulations of the faculty regarding degrees with distinction at graduation have made some very desirable changes. Heretofore these degrees have been granted almost wholly on the basis of As received. The present scheme, however, offers a much fairer method of counting college work. By this method it is possible, for example, for a student to receive a magna cum laude although he has not received As in half of his college work-that is, by receiving the equivalent of fifteen full As and Bs. And this is only an instance. The same general fairness runs...
GENTLEMEN-I should like through your columns, to make a suggestion to the Lawn Tennis Association. Would it not be fairer to all players, to frame some such rule as the following...
...does not decrease toward the end of the course. It is very exasprerating for men who have tried year after without success, to see the best rooms go to men who have not yet entered college, many of whom have never even been in Cambridge. It would be much fairer if the allotment were according to seniority. Then every man could look forward with certainty to two or possibly three years in the yard. Such an arrangement could easily be put into effect and would remedy a real grievance without injustice to anyone...
...plan for the senior examination in forensics is not to be applied to the juniors as well, since the nature of the two courses is the same, and there is no apparent reason for the distinction. The new plan is a much better test of ability, and is much fairer than the old arrangement, as it does not give those who happen to possess good memories an unfair advantage over those who have worked as hard but cannot remember as well. The idea of returning the briefs to the juniors is an improvement over the course pursued last year...