Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that only one type of life can survive, and that, the highest type of all life. Work, and that only, will end in becoming a torture; pleasure, and that only, will finally sicken; the study of men and the knowledge of God which it brings is the only thing fit to occupy a man's life...
...directors of the dining association should see fit to act on this suggestion, no doubt the details could be easily arranged...
...some reason the Advocate saw fit to quote but one sentence from our editorial, and to interpret the rest in her own words. Since that interpretation is entirely misleading, we beg to repeat the passage which inspired it: "The best policy seems to be to take what we can get. If the restaurant scheme succeeds, the University will be so much the better for it; if it fails, it will be nobody's loss but the Corporation's. With a building already erected, the present scheme, if unsatisfactory may be altered until it meets all requirements." It seems...
Finally, whatever difficulty there may be, falls equally on both nines and is indeed, of your own making. If you had seen fit to play the New Haven game in May or earlier in June instead of the last week in that month as we suggested at our conference, the tie game might easily have been played before vacation. We should not and do not take any exception to the date you have chosen for the New Haven game. But, on the other hand, since it is your selection of so late a date as Tuesday, June 27th, that throws...
...Horace. That classic writer was always a favorite of the learned. The perfection of his style, the admirable truth and discrimination of his critical judgment, the charming companionable familiarity of his Odes, the thoroughly human feeling which pervades them, qualified by the sensitive fastidiousness inseparable from the highest cultivation, - fit him for the scholar's intimate and the student's guide. Few could appreciate these excellences so fully as Mr. Sargent. He assimilated all that was most characteristic and captivating in this delicious writer, whose fascination surpass that of poets of far loftier pretensions...