Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pennsylvanian in an editorial complaining of how little regard is paid to the University of Pennsylvania as a University fit to rank side by side with Harvard and Yale says...
...systematized election, which these boys need. Prescription says, "This person is unfit to choose keep him so;" laissez-faire says, "If he is unfit to choose let him perish;" but a watchful elective system must say, "Granting him to be unfit, if he is not spoiled, I will fit him." At Harvard, methods of furnishing information are pretty fully developed. In May an elective paphlet is issued, which announces everything that is to be taught in the college during the following year. Consultations with instructors about all courses are frequent. That most effective means of distributing information, the talk...
Gymnasium goods and Men's furnishings in stock and on order. Fine shirts to order; measures taken and fit guaranteed...
Gymnasium goods and Men's furnishings in stock and on order. Fine shirts to order; measures taken and fit guaranteed...
Matters, however, would be at least bearable if we were allowed to cut the few recitations just before and just after the Christmas recess on our own responsibility, without other consequence than those of loosing the advantages to be gained by attending them. But when the college authorities see fit to fix important examinations for the day before the recess, some protest ought to be made. If we cut those examinations we endanger our standing for the year, and if we do not cut them, some of us cannot get home till after Christmas. The Christmas week...