Word: unjustly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...price which it can get than by keeping them vacant at a price which it cannot get? With the best interests of the College at heart, we are sincerely glad that these rooms are vacant, and hope that they will continue so as long as the present unjust and unwise policy of high prices is continued...
...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...
...also seems unjust to refuse a cup where there is only one entry. The chief object of the H. A. A. is to encourage athletics here. Now, as the contestants in many of the events of the in-door meeting practise together daily, it is well known beforehand who is likely to win; and often the man whose chances are best is left to enter the contest alone. Hence, under the present rule, a man is actually discouraged from trying to excel, knowing that if he acquires a decided superiority over others, no one will enter against...
Granting that the "Harvard Arion Quartette," or the "Arion Quartette of Harvard Students," did not travel through New England on the productive capital of the name of Harvard; granting that it was a mistake to call attention to this rival society; and granting that your paper was unjust in censuring them, - concessions which not every one will be ready to grant, - it must still be conceded that there is something questionable in the conduct of men who, having the balance of power in their hands, insist on the resignation of two members - to them personally unpopular - because one was once...
Ranking upon an average is particularly liable to be unjust in a mixed system, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek may be studied only because it is required for the entrance examination and during the Freshman year. The mark of the student who is indifferent to this study drags down his average, and as he intends to drop Greek as soon as possible, a greater proficiency would be of no advantage, so soon is the whole to be neglected and forgotten...