Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should children be brought up at the State's expense as Reds? Are Communist parents living idly on the Dole fit to bring up their own offspring? Last week Australia's Federal Government moved toward answering these questions in drastic fashion...
...struggling with Divisionals comes a cry against the injustice caused by differences in the Departmental rules regulating exemption from final examinations of courses in their field of concentration. These rules are as varied as the tongues of the Tower of Babel, for each Division makes them as it sees fit. In the Division of Modern Languages only those who pass the Divisional Examination "with credit" are exempt. Biology grants freedom from examination to all Seniors who have, at April Hours, an honor record in the courses in question. The Division of History, Government, and Economics relieves candidates in good standing...
Despite growing sentiment in favor of graduate work as a means of obtaining satisfactory employment, the Alumni Placement Bureau still has a great chance to fit the 'mere' college graduate to suitable employment. Specialized training is of little use to those who in actual practice fail to reach the heights of business procedure. Those who consider a graduate school degree as an open sesame to responsible positions should remember that the rise to such positions is governed by forces created in earlier training, and in college. Emphasis for college alumni who omit Graduate School work should be placed...
...public which is used to much political braying in the wilderness will not be surprised that Representative Crisp, of Georgia, has seen fit to introduce a bill pardoning the convicted defendants in the Massie case; but it must wonder at the state of mind which the action reflects. A pardon extended form the highest legislative body in the nation would virtually sanction the action of any person who takes the law in his own hands and commits an act of Violence. That lynching and violent personal revenge are subversive of law and order, and contrary to the spirit of modern...
Lawyer Darrow's whole case was based on the assumption that Lieut. Massie, in a fit of insanity induced by the confession of his wife's ravisher, actually did pull the trigger that resulted in Kahahawai's death. If the young husband who held the gun and did not recall firing it could be cleared by the jury, the case against the other three defendants in no way linked to the shooting would also fall flat...