Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unmistakably. At the beginning of the first term, last October, the attention of the editors of the Crimson was called, by certain members of the Glee Club, to the anomalous proceedings of the "Arion Quartette" during the previous summer. The criticism with which the editors of your paper saw fit to visit that new musical society did not tend to ameliorate matters between the "Arion Quartette" and the Glee Club, and two first tenors, who belonged to both organizations, severed their connection with the Glee Club, and after resisting several entreaties to reconsider their action, consented to return only...
...Fit appellation...
...accepting a challenge from them) were to make some definite preparations for sending their crew abroad if they beat us, outsiders would then think they really meant business; but as matters stand, their only avowed object is to beat us, and then send their crew abroad if they think fit. If they will agree to send out their men if they should win in a race with us, a race would not be a bad thing, as then the fastest crew would be sent out, which is, or should be, the main object...
...committee was then appointed to lay out a track immediately on Jarvis Field. As to lay a proper cinder track would require so much time as to leave none for training, it was decided to make a sod track, and it is thought that it will be fit for use on Monday of next week...
...defeat sustained by our Nine last Saturday has been the subject of frequent conversation, and various are the causes to which it is ascribed. It is not a fit time we think for moralizing, and saying that our training has been insufficient; nor is it fair to say, as many do, that our Nine is not as strong as Yale's. We must not lose heart for the rest of the series because we have been beaten in the first two games. Both of these games were played under peculiarly unfortunate circumstances; Fessenden was greatly missed in the first game...