Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...towards coach or equipment. Thus out of 30 odd original candidates but a dozen remained--simply because they could not or did not care to assume this expense, an expense the members of no other team are obliged to bear. It is, then, no longer a survival of the fittest, but of the longest pocket...
...plume system and the fourth year since the competitions have been open to all men in the University. At least six songs have been selected for first trial by the Committees of former years. At the second mass meetings the number was reduced on a survival of the fittest basis. At the final mass meetings the two best songs were practiced and both used at the Yale game. The song most successfully used at the Yale game won the competition...
When the Harvard Memorial Society was founded in 1895, its chosen object was "to perpetuate a knowledge of the history of our University, and to commemorate the great men who have been teachers and students here." One of the fittest ways to do this seemed to be by the annual services which had been held in Sanders Theatre on Memorial Day since 1892. Originally it had been intended that the exercises should be under the auspices of each graduating class; but the difficulty of establishing a tradition made it advisable to put them in the charge of a permanent organization...
...official or an unofficial capacity, he was listened to with deferential attention, for we all knew that he weighed his words, and that what he had to say would be to the point and would advance business. On more than one important occasion he was chosen as the fittest person to express the mind of the Faculty, and on every such occasion his report was received with enthusiasm...