Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Within the last fortnight several persons have seen fit to use the columns of the CRIMSON as a means of playing practical jokes on their class-mates. Notices of hour examinations and meetings have been inserted, which had no foundation whatever, and yesterday some practical joker inserted a special notice without any authority for so doing. There is absolutely no excuse for such nonsense; it exceeds the bounds of childishness, it is undignified and ungentlemanly. It has always been our policy to aid the students in every possible way by publishing notices of their meetings and other notices...
...begins to look through an old issue. The editorials began to be flat and vapid; the jokes harder and harder to see; the bright verse more and more scarce. The double page and then even the full-page pictures disappeared and small society pictures with jokes (?) that would fit any one of them equally well, were substituted instead. Finally, to complete the destruction of its ancient character, the Lampoon's cover was changed into a cheap copy of that of Life. In fact, the whole paper is apparently aiming to reproduce a Lampoonized edition of Life, its style of pictures...
...large classes and departments, Harvard and Yale can not only equip their representatives for business, but they can enlarge the true blessings of sport, by making it more general and by bringing in many men of feeble physical mould, who need just the experience of the athletic field to fit them for usefulness. Of course practice games for instruction can be had with professionals...
...submit to the friends of athletics in Harvard and Yale an earnest and thoughtful consideration of the plan suggested, not claiming for it that it is wholly without objection, but believing that it must come soon, and ought to come now, when the time seems to be especially fit...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We have here in college a great number of courses from which to select what we think fit. We have opportunities under the elective system which the students of no other college have. Yet it seems to me that while we have so many courses on so many subjects there is one great deficiency; that one of the most important subjects has been left...