Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writer finds one great danger attendant upon military drill; he fears that men will acquire such an undue fondness for it as to unfit them for "sober civil life." He again states that "these remarks have been prompted by the recent events at Bowdoin College." This is certainly an unfortunate instance for his theory. The drill at Bowdoin seems to have done anything but give the students a restless love for martial pursuits. The Bowdoin men had not learned the first lesson of military life, which is obedience. Men who will sign an agreement to keep all the laws...
Thus you're unfit for earth below...
...name; the women taking both courses and degrees different from the men. It is also significant that the matron told Mr. Eliot that she would be unwilling to have a daughter of hers in Oberlin College. The President said, or implied, that the physique of women rendered them unfit for such education as men get. It is unfortunate, we think, that the testimony of leading educators differs so materially upon these practical questions. The evidence is often diametrically opposed, and can do but little more than confuse the candid student of social science. Mr. Eliot says that both male...
...recent number of the Advocate there appeared an article dealing severely with those who dare to complain of the instruction Harvard furnishes. Forgetting that few men feel at liberty to mention special cases, and forgetting, too, that, were this done, an article would be rendered unfit for publication, the writer charges this kind of criticism with a noticeable vagueness. Therefore, he judges that such articles indicate a loose and careless way of looking at college work. It would be much more charitable, and nearer the truth as well, to suppose that the man who complains is a man who really...