Word: fitting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Deed of gift that founded the House specified that its activities be directed toward social service. Certainly the day student at Harvard is not a fit object of social service, nor does he desire to be considered as such. But what is more to the point, in providing facilities for commuters, Phillips Brooks has lost its identification, both in reputation and actual practice with the social work it was intended to perform. In the eyes of resident underclassmen, P.B.H. has come to be looked on as a self-sufficient commuters unit, comparable to a House, and, hence, an organization with...
...real trouble centers around something in a dining hall. She comes from the south. She used to be a waitress in Dunster House, but for some inexplicable reason the authorities say fit to move her. Now she is a waitress in Adams. She is a very intelligent girl, because she has learned the wisdom in the old saying, "When in Rome, do the Romans...
...doing well and those who are coasting through without any serious education whatsoever. Deans and tutors are in a position to make just this distinction. They should be given the power to save the sinking souls of their tutees or advisees by enforcing any requirements which they see fit to enforce...
...difficulty in explaining Italy's future moves in Abyssinia, Dictator Mussolini as War Minister abruptly took over its functions. No more mimeographed handouts will be issued, he decreed. Correspondents will get their news orally at the War Office, face drastic prosecution if their verbal informant sees fit to accuse them of misquotation. Press feats of the week included high praise in every Italian paper for a mother who, asked why she was sobbing on the dock as her soldier son sailed, explained through her tears: "I am not sorry that my son is going to fight for Italy...
...news. It is not, as many suppose, a digest of Capital gossip or confidential "inside stuff." Published and edited by a onetime Associated Press Washington correspondent, the weekly Kiplinger letter is a service for subscribers who are "pretty well fed up on facts. They want evaluation, so that facts fit together and mean something...