Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed out that men are not to be forced to enter the Houses. If it so develops that the atmosphere in the Houses is such to attract men to them, the extinction of the clubs involved will be but another example of the sound principal of survival of the fittest...
...their sons. In several instances boys have been directed toward other fields more practical to their particular types of mind, and of these some few have later become highly successful. So it is not new to schools "to apply a hard yet merciful rule of college-education for the fittest...
...Hill has gone credit from all keen educators for adopting Professor Wood's new forms, for being the first U. S. preparatory school to apply the hard yet merciful rule of college-education for the fittest...
Further survival of the fittest is listed by Emil Ludwig as one of seven reasons still advanced in favor of war, but all seven he devastates with withering, vigorous logic. Then wistfully he places a little hope in peace conferences, a great deal more in the give-your-child-no-toy-soldiers brand of education...
...University of Virginia reasons: "Sea areas and probably sea foods have an influence in reducing the stature by increasing the iodine intake. [The thyroid gland in the neck utilizes the iodine and controls bodily growth.] . . . Looked at in its broadest sense, environment molds the individual, selection retains the fittest under different environments and heredity carries on the results...