Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Departments of the Interior and of Agriculture, could do irreparable harm to the nation's reserve supply of timber; to say nothing of the concurrent destruction of the few spots of primeval beauty that remain in the country. Herbert Hoover is one of the few men who is fit by previous experience to hold this position and who can be relied upon to preserve the integrity of the nation's resources...
...these agencies in drawing students to a university, such activities are only a supplementary part of what the university has to offer. The things which it chiefly offers are intellectual things, and, the musical mastery and artistic precision exhibited by the Harvard Glee Club form an exhibit which is fit to rank with some of the best intellectual products of college life today. K. S. CLARK, In Princeton Alumni Weekly...
...courageous high school student is faced with the alternatives of entering a state university or entering Harvard under the College Board Examinations as a candidate for the S. B. degree. To avoid a degree which does not in the least indicate his field of college study, this student must fit himself for the three-year Latin examination; a herculean task if undertaken without help; an expensive one if received from the "window"; a costly expenditure of valuable time if gained by attending the Cambridge, Latin School, as some men in college have done...
Every year it has enrolled from twelve to sixteen students who have been already well prepared, but who wish to fit themselves further for teaching or research. Under present conditions this is the maximum number that can be satisfactorily accommodated. Most of these men have received the regree of Doctor of Science or Master of Sciences upon the completion of their residence, and the Institution has thus trained a number of men have received the degree of Doctor investigators have enhanced materially the agricultural welfare of the country...
There seems to be little doubt that under the present financial exigencies, the Governing Boards of the University will see fit to adopt the President's recommendation for an increase...