Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...violent blow that the overseers have seen fit to inflict on the classical department of the University by permitting the departure of so excellent a scholar as Professor Croswell in addition to the loss of Professor Dyer, whose scholarship is no less universally acknowledged. It is not here our place to criticise the course of events that led to this wholly unexpected - might we say unwarranted - loss. To us falls the profitless task of expressing deep regret at losing two teachers who have won the esteem and the thanks of so many of our number. We are convinced that...
...object of this school is to train students who wish to fit themselves for geological work in the field, and to aid teachers in acquiring methods of instruction in the elements of geology. It will be conducted by the instructors in geology at Harvard College...
...knows to his cost how far behind the others he is when he comes into training work. How short of wind he is! How tired he gets! In a week or two more he is, so he thinks, all right. But by the first of November he has a fit of the "blues" or does not sleep; and he wonders why he has got over-trained...
Members will find in stock a complete line of collars and cuffs, including the latest shapes. Dress shirts, dress ties and dress gloves. Shirts made to order of all grades, and fit guaranteed...
...sophomore at Dartmouth, while in a fit of somnambulism, jumped out of a second-story window into the snow...