Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will play in the Pennsylvania State game. Logan ran through signals with the team for the first time in two weeks, but his condition and lack of practice will doubtless keep him out of Saturday's game also. Trumbull is in shape to play, and Hardwick seems as fit as ever, so that the condition of the University team, with the exception of Pennock, is the best it has been in some time. A change that was the cause of some surprise was the shifting of Harris, who has been playing as a substitute in the University backfield...
Although the subjects considered are essentially of an engineering character they will be taught for the special benefit of students who do not expect to become professional engineers, but who desire to fit themselves for municipal executive or legislative work and for intelligent citizenship. By means of lectures, recitations, reading of assigned references and the preparation of short papers, the student will be made acquainted with some of the more important sanitary and physical welfare activities of American and European cities...
...University crew spent some time Friday trying out its new English shell, which has just been rigged. Special attention was given to rigging the boat to fit...
...motive which actuated Harvard in devising and adopting its "new plan" of admission may be seen at work in other quarters. The motive was that of bridging the chasm between the College and the schools of the country which had not been making it primarily their business to fit their pupils for entering Harvard or any other college, but had been trying to give them a sound, general, if so-called "secondary" education. These boys, in many widely scattered parts of the country, were often boys of the sort that Harvard has felt itself qualified to serve...
...occurrence that is worth singling out for attention from the maze of everyday life. But almost as important as this qualification are the other ones, of good sense and high-mindedness. The nose for news is nothing if not accompanied by the capacity to discriminate as to what is fit news...