Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...
There was "Touchdown", fit as a little butter-ball, rolling around on the campus, just bursting with pride over what his big team was doing, and only getting mixed up with the marking lines occasionally. What gloriously funny things he executed out in front of the Harvard cheering section, culminating in a shower of good-feeling when the referee removed him from the water-pail! Even Old Mother West Wind herself was chuckling good-humoredly...
...votes for or against any bill just as he alone sees fit. He espouses a lost cause fearlessly, if not with pleasure. It does not matter to him whether he opposes or supports any party or any group. His mind may be curious in its functionings, but it is honest, honest above all others in the Senate. That is the tacit and sometimes spoken opinion which his colleagues have formed of him and doubtless it is the most reliable. So they let him stand in a place apart and he does as he wills without criticism from his fellows...
...document read to us is marked by a high serenity and gentle philosophy which I hesitate to affront. I have tasted this philosophy and appreciated its nobility and I wonder if my philosophy is fit to face...
...opened by the city's University. Small persons of three, four and five years, instead of keeping their doting parents at home by their screechings and other forms of infantile hilarity, can now be left to exercise their lungs as they see fit in a day nursery, while fathers and mothers attend to the sterner matters of life in the lecture room...