Word: fairer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...teams entered gave evidence that the sport had lost none of its popularity because of the discontinuance of the series the year previous. This spring still more interest should be shown, since the new arrangement provides for a greater number of games than usual and ensures a fairer chance for every team...
...actual or second hand knowledge of the candidate's ability. With these data the Athletic Committee would be able to pass intelligently upon the recommendations of the manager. The adoption of this suggestion might not result in securing better managers, but we believe that it would make the competitions fairer and more satisfactory to the unsuccessful candidates...
Systematization and a fairer proportion in the subjects is evidently necessary. The CRIMSON would suggest, if it is not too late for the coming year, a division of the department into several half-courses, each of which shall treat a special topic in a well-rounded and well-balanced, though perforce superficial, manner. There may, of course, be better and more comprehensive ways of re-organizing this department; but re-organization of some sort seems necessary to give Fine Arts the place it deserves...
...managers, relieved of worry about subscriptions, could enormously increase the number of men in active competition. Even under the present system, the track management, by canvassing the dormitories and looking up individuals, was able to get 436 entries for the winter carnival. Competitions for managerships would be fairer and more valuable as experience if made in work of this kind, rather than in raising subscriptions...
...tone--"The subscription business, however, has become a nuisance"? Is it a fatal objection to the contributions now being made to the general fund that they are "unevenly distributed," and many men of small means give relatively more than some of their richer brethren? Would it not be fairer to raise the price of tution for those who are actually to profit by it, instead of appealing to the generosity of those who are long out of College? If, as has sometimes been said, it is humiliating to a student to solicit money from another for any purpose, what...