Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...importance that the vote of every Senior who goes to the polls today shall not be influenced by politics or by social affiliations, but solely by the personal merits of the candidates. And it is doubtful whether any man who has allowed electioneering in his own behalf is a fit candidate for the last honors which the class can bestow. R. L. BACON. E. L. BURNHAM. H. FOSTER, JR. S. T. GANO. R. B. GREGG. G. J. HIRSCH. J. H. IJAMS. W. MINOT. J. M. MORSE. J. REYNOLDS, JR. D. W. STREETER...
...qualifications of the candidates of all parties. Members of the University who regard Cambridge as their home, or who have acquired a legal residence here, may be willing to enlist in the Good Government League's work as a matter of public spirit; but all men who wish to fit themselves for effective service as citizens would find it a useful experience. Familiarity with local political conditions is not necessary; in fact, some of the best reports made for the Good Government League in former years have been prepared by men of other States, who had the advantage...
...undergraduates of the University and by members of the Faculty for the relief of sufferers in the San Francisco disaster. It has been decided to send the money to Mr. H. Davis '49, a trustee of Leland Stanford University, and to allow him to distribute it as he sees fit...
...physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities and sympathies; gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression, especially in extempore speech, pungent, vivid, finding always--if sometimes he had to make it--the fit word; impetuous, generous, the soul of honor, scornful of meanness and falsehood, swift in thought and manner, too swift at times for sluggish wits...
...argument for the negative. The plan proposed by the affirmative, he said, is wrong and unjustifiable, in that it compels three classes of society to contribute to the support of one and compels workingmen to pay to the government part of their earnings to be refunded when officials see fit to do so. This places too much power, which is liable to be abused, in the hands of officials, and tends to discourage self-initiative on the part of workingmen...