Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this be done by the Tennis Association? Let those who wish pay every day; but also let those who object to this be allowed to buy a season ticket for five dollars, or whatever price the directors may see fit to adopt. The holders of season tickets would thus be benefitted in their pockets, and also in their patience by not having to hunt for a tiny dime every afternoon...
...efficient after he has learned it. One trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap characters which every college sends out, and which neither education nor anything short of re-creation could fit for a prominent sphere of action...
...well known as the Military Academy, and it is, perhaps, considered by some a school of minor importance and inferior aims. It is, however, a school quite on a par with West Point. The aims of the two schools are similar. The Naval Academy is designed to fit youths, presumably carefully selected, for the jonior grades of the line and engineer corps in the navy...
...proper training for a man who intends to make business his vocation in after life. Many arguments, pro and con, have appeared in the press, in all of which the great mass of discussion has centered about the one point, is, or is not, a highly educated man fit to devote his time and attention to the trivialities of any occupations outside of the professional? Many are convinced that the higher the polish a man puts upon his mind the less readily it adapts itself to the hard and exacting circumstances always found in a purely financial pursuit...
...interesting to compare the lectures which Mr. Godkin has been delivering for the last few days in Sever Hall with the lectures which Prof. Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania delivered last winter in the same place. Both of these gentlemen are fit representatives of the two great schools of political economy which they represent,-one founded on free trade, the other on protection,-and the college authorities are to be congratulated on securing the services of these gentlemen. That the students were aware of the opportunities which were thus offered them has been clearly shown by the large audiences...