Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copley, nor a longer, for the final curtain fell at about eleven twenty-five. And we do hope that Mr. Jewett will produce more of the Sheridan comedies,--at least until the gowns for the modern plays he puts on can be made to look as lovely and fit as well as those in the School for Scandal...
Yesterday was the 63d anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt. While many states have already officially proclaimed October 27th as Roosevelt Day, Massachusetts apparently has not yet done so. For while New York City saw fit to observe the date with numerous meeting, banquets, and a pageant, the University, which likes to speak of the late ex-president as the "greatest Harvard man", let the day pass without any mention, official or otherwise. But would it not be worth while to ascertain whether undergraduate opinion is not in favor of observing the date by some simple annual ceremony...
...this practical age, we are much inclined to regard good citizenship simply as an active participation in the life of the world as it is--the ability to fit into the general scheme and contribute to the common causes. Efficiency is the pass word, and Intelligence the be-all and end-all, in this conception. This end is obviously worthy, but it is imperfect; mere intelligence is not as great as intellect, and efficiency in itself is not progress. True citizenship in something more than being a "success" in the eyes of what is called the World. It is rather...
...lives there if he can help it; the proctor who was last year assigned to the dormitory has left. Whether his charges can or will remain is yet to be seen. Anyone who has ever been in the building will agree that it is not fit to be used as a dormitory; after an extensive investigation we were unable to find a single person who spoke a good word for Holyoke House...
...fit a cooperative religion to a competitive system of life, is the problem that confronts us in the present day". These words formed the central theme of a stimulating talk given by the Reverend William Learoyd Sperry, Pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Boston, at the Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening on the subject "Christianity and Competition...