Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...When it was finished it was accepted, we understand, in the regular prescribed way by the corporation, but, strange to say, all authority over thecontrol of the building seems to have gone to the winds. It is impossible to find out who has charge. The eleven have just seen fit to use the building and find themselves embarrassed at every turn. In the first place it took nearly a week to find out who had authority to open the building; after a deal of fussing it was finally opened, but only to find that no one had authority to light...
...that the bad weather is approaching the teams will have to do most of their practice in doors; this is especially the case with the crew and nine. The Gymnasium and the Cary building are the two places fit for such work. The former is familiar to everyone but the latter is much less known...
...fit to vote is excluded by the present law; Watterson, Speech, Boston Post, 27 Sept...
...live in the immediate vicinity of the college but who require some quiet room in which to study during the day, and some place in which to get inexpensive lunches. The corporation was induced to buy the house at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland Streets, to fit up the rooms on the ground floor for the use of the present Foxcroft Club and to arrange the eight rooms in the upper part of the house as a regular college dormitory...
...only say again two words which I have said together already several times in my sermon. These words are character and service. These two words, I think, describe the higher regions of man's life in which alone his powers can fulfil themselves and know their real strength and fit themselves for the full doing even of their lower tasks. In them the workman doomed today to lower toils, when he is once allowed to enter, lifts himself up and knows his dignity and begins to put forth the might which he possesses...