Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every editor and every man with sufficient courage to write letters to the press (in defiance of the American belief that anyone who does so is fit for a lunatic asylum) can do his bit of the "job" whereof Nemesis despairs...
...given the Crimson stock a considerable rise, since the team has lacked a good center all season, although both Al Dewey and Art Duffey have shown up fairly well. Moseley, however, is a natural, who personifies both good hockey sense and playing ability, a combination in which the out fit as a whole is seriously lacking. He will not reach his peak tonight, however, for he has not yet had sufficient time to get back into top-notch condition. On the other hand, the absence of Frank Gleason, who will not be released from the Infirmary until early next week...
Facing its most severe test so far this season, the Varsity swimming team will encounter a brilliant Columbia out-fit tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool. In Eugene Jennings, the visitors bring with them one of the fastest men in the East in the two sprint events, while Captain Thomas Wright has turned in remarkable times for the two distance swims. With this competition the Harvard team will undoubtedly be pushed to the limit to keep its record of victories intact...
...received as a move in the right direction. The so-called "general honors" degree has been for many years a back door to scholastic distinction, more and more out of keeping with the concentration and tutorial systems. The great cause for regret is that the faculty did not see fit to adopt the recommendation of the division of History, Government, and Economics that the degree be abolished altogether...
...that recalls another story about people who ease their indignation by writing letters: Casper Milquetoast, in a fit of public spirit, wrote to the Pullman company about insects in his berth and promptly received a complimentary and apologetic letter two pages long. He proudly displayed this to his friends as proof that corporations do have souls, until some cynic discovered and pointed out to him a faint penciled note on the back: 'Send this s.o.b. the bug letter...