Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honoured that you saw fit to take my article in the September "Atlantic Monthly" as the subject for your leader on the 29th September. My appreciation is, to be sure, a little diminished when I see that your editorial writer has not in the least understood what the said article was all about. He seems to have thought that I think it possible to make people pious by university compulsion--a ludicrous idea for even a professor to be supposed to hold. What I was really talking about, of course, was the absurdity of regarding any man as educated...
...Tinko [Mrs. Pawley] is wonderfully brave and cheery, but she can't stand this sort of thing forever. We've done nothing but eat and sleep for a week. We are filthy and bored stiff, but we're both fit and well treated...
This astonishing piece of "economy" will deprive all undergraduates outside of the houses and most graduate students of the use of the library during the time most fit for study. And, in fact, the house libraries will be in no position to furnish the numerous copies of certain books required in the larger courses available previously in the main reading room. The stacks with much that is absolutely unprocurable in the house libraries will also be unavailable...
...rather surprised that the CRIMSON has not seen fit to comment on the proposed closing of Widener Library at six. Such a topic would seem to come under its sphere of action...
More convincing, indeed, is the striking contrast that this, one the whole well stitched and cogent pronouncement presents to the feverish in discrimination which has distinguished the press and governmental agencies in their dealings with the case. The unreasoning outburst, all too characteristic of American political opinions, has seen fit to employ the terms "red" and "radical" to denote all political extremists. Possibly the confusion is justified, but to the average onlooker it appears founded on hysteria, not upon any understanding of party demarcations. It is a sad commentary or a great portion of the American press that, instead...