Word: fitting
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Dean Smith then discusses the question of the shorter college course, and he is of the opinion that life is not long enough to justify an expenditure of time that prevents a man from being fitted for his life work until he is twenty-six. The college must be a place of freedom with responsibility. It invokes danger, but manhood and character cannot be developed without the element of danger, and it is, therefore, not a fit place for everybody. But to counteract this danger, the strongest influences are provided...
...always be filled by an able and patriotic citizen, zealously devoted to its purpose, but in the hope that through its teaching; the great principles upon which our national constitution is based, and in conformity to which administration should be carried on, will be vindicated and strengthened; that the fit relations between parties and government will be made plain, that the obligations of the moral law and of patriotic endeavor in party politics and all official life will be persuasively expounded; that the just relations between public opinion, party opinion and individual independence will be set forth; that an effective...
...oldest traditions. What is needed, then, is a slight improvement in permanency and looks over the present fence. Of styles that might not be too radical may be suggested a modest stone wall three or four feet in height, which in time, by the aid of vines, may fit in with the general tone of age and dignity of the College. UNDERGRADUATE...