Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent graduates, and a central gathering place for all minor letter men would achieve that end. Nothing arouses more interest in athletics than an opportunity to get together and "talk shop." Not least in importance would be the spread of a feeling that every man must keep himself fit to give his best to a Harvard team...
General Wood's long record as a doctor and a soldier fit him peculiarly for this task. In Cuba and the Philippines he has solved much the same sort of sanitation and general relief problems that exist in Armenia, as well as demonstrating his capabilities as an executive. In the army camps before and during the World War he has shown his power of organization, his grasp of details, and his popularity as a leader...
...themselves. Such a demonstration of mob violence is only too likely to prove a boomerang. A people which loses its head and charges at an unprovocative flag like a bull in the arena, is not apt to be considered in the eyes of the rest of the world, as fit to have its freedom. Besides, if the Irish were whole-hearted in their cause, working earnestly for liberty, they would not give way to abortive outbursts which can have no real effect on their ultimate desire, but would aim steadily at their main objective, refusing to be turned aside...
...building with four indoor courts would, in a measure, fill this need; for it is a matter of record that more men take tennis as a form of exercise to keep fit than any other sport in the University. The encouragement of a sport that men can keep up long after they leave college is something the University ought not to overlook. The indoor courts would solve this problem. PAUL JACKSON...
...Every third year student is to spend alternate periods of two months in the class room and in a machine shop or electrical department where he will work beside the ordinary laborer. In this way the factulty of the school, the students, and industry may co-operate in producing fit engineers...