Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD; Allow me to answer some questions that seem to rise in many minds apropos of the article on Memorial Hall in the last number of the Advocate. There was not "on Monday evening any supply of food unfit to be eaten found on the point of being cooked." Neither was there a discovery of food of any description, cooked or uncooked, that was at all in the nature of a "revelation," and most certainly not a "disgusting revelation." On account of no such "revelation," then, is Mr. Balch "an unfit man to be entrusted with the management...
...great mass of American youth in our colleges are given their education as their capital. It is the tool wherewith they are to carve their way at least to a competency. But how? For any part in business life, trade or manufactures, a college training is held to unfit a young man, whether with or without capital. He could not, with his diploma in hand, earned by years of hard study, sell a pound of nails or sugar intelligently. There is not a trade by which the most ignorant man makes his living in which be could now earn...
...taken by the college library, because the managers of that monthly see fit to continue to publish Col. Ingersoll's articles, and have, it is said, refused to grant to Mr. Jere Black space for more answers. The last number containing a paper from Col. Ingersoll, thought to be unfit for youths of tender minds to read, is kept securely locked up. "This course of action," says the last Orient, "in regard to the library, may commend itself to 'the powers that be,' but we venture to state that it certainly will never be endorsed by the greater part...
...base-ball grounds at Providence on which the college games with Brown are played, The complaint of the News is undoubtedly just. Leaving aside the question as to whether one side or the other is benefitted by these grounds, it must be said that they are totally unfit for championship games. The in-field is very good, but there is no out-field at all worth mentioning. The right field is a steep hill, centre field is occupied by a church, nor is the left field as large as it ought to be. According to the ground rules, any ball...
...undoubtedly call forth. Could they not be held in Sanders Theatre? And even if the audience should not quite fill that auditorium, the place would be found so much more agreeable and suitable to the character of the recitals given as to warrant the change. Boylston is certainly totally unfit for the purpose...