Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seem to improve very fast, although the number of complaints is very large now and increasing. To be sure we have been favored with meat at luncheons, which is a little fresher, and this is an improvement, no doubt. But why should we be served with potatoes that are unfit for eating, simply because the meat is better? It is a fact that a student going to luncheon at fifteen minutes past one finds great difficulty in getting any potatoes at all, and then, when he does get any, they are, or have been lately, almost unfit for eating...
...offers some very appropriate suggestions under the heading, "The pay of Newspaper Men." The circumstance that so many men are declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is the result of so many being in journalism who are wholly unfit for their positions. Some men, the writer thinks, can earn no more as a journalist than as a mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally...
...from stopping the discussion let us continue it until the practice stands revealed in all its disgusting details, and the whole body of students unite in branding the "cribber" as unfit for the society of Harvard men, whether his aim be forty per cent. or seventy-five...
...they spoke in a way that did their cause credit. The negative confined their remarks to legal quibbles on the separation of the grand British Empire, and offered some able legal arguments in favor of their theories; but they rather stultified themselves by urging that the Irish were now unfit, would perhaps always be unfit to govern themselves; that they did not wish to govern themselves; that they wanted independence and to smash the British empire; that they did not want to be separated from England; that they were a degraded race; that they were an enlightened race...
...Saturday, or the inconvenience of having apparatus misplaced for a day or two this week, were the only objection, I suppose little fault would be found; but when, for the benefit of Cambridge people, or of a part of the faculty, the gymnasium is, to a certain extent, rendered unfit for exercise and even dangerous to those who practice there, I think we may fairly complain. Last Saturday the floor of the main hall was thoroughly waxed; it is now so slippery that for many purposes it cannot be used. The mattresses and movable appliances slip about, no foothold...