Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Law School Association offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on any of the following subjects: (1) The principle underlying the maxim volentianon fit injursa and the application of the maxim in cases where a servant sues a master to recover damages resulting from the master's failure to comply with the statutory requirements designed to secure the safety of the servant. (2) The extent to which in the United States private rights of property may be effected without compensation by the exercise of the police power. (3) The obligation of railroad companies impliedly assumed...
...Again, the race with Harvard is toward the end of June, and if we trained our crew for a race in April it would be hard to keep them in fit physical condition for the June race with Harvard. These reasons seem to us here at Yale to e weighty enough almost to necessitate placing the date of the proposed Yale-Cambridge race in July or early in August. We don't know how the Englishmen feel about it because we have not heard from them yet. We shall open negotiations soon and see how they look at the question...
When our attention was called to this attack in the Wesleyan Argus, we treated it with the contempt it deserved by passing it by unnoticed, remembering the source from which it came. In a recent number of the Princetoniun, however, the editors have seen fit to publish the extracts from the editorials in question. If, as it seems, those statements of the Argus are to go the rounds of the college press, we have, in justice to the Harvard team, to notice them far enough to deny them. What movive actuated the editors of the Princetonian to reprint the statements...
...their prosperity, he has dug his way into a heap of the veriest rubbish and then blinded by the dust in his eyes, he has yielded to his distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with all the energy we can sum-mon-nevertheless, the disquisition would still be one of the gravest of falsehoods: it would be a falsehood because it is meant to convey the impression abroad that the whole system of Harvard is wrong...
...master shall be appointed by the Harvard Athletic Association before each meeting. He shall, if he sees fit, appoint no more than two assistants, to be called first and second "whips" respectively. He shall carry a whistle or a horn, and in a "slow hunt" shall control the action of the pack by the following signals: by blowing once to stop, and twice...