Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...criticism is often made that a college education tends to unfit young men for much of the hard work, and many of the practical duties, of every day life. While the facts justify an absolute denial of the above statement, yet it is true that many matters of practical importance are too often overlooked. It is only reasonable to expect, that the modern college graduate shall have a comparatively thorough knowledge of questions of common interest, and the rules by which public assemblies should be governed. If unexpectedly called upon, how many students now in college could express an opinion...
...stupendous exertion to review the work of months. We think that these complaints are unjust, and that the authors of the new rule have shown their real regard for the student's interest by thus depriving them of that time in which many men against their better judgment, unfit themselves by hard study for the three hours' work which is to follow. An examination in Philosophy or Political Economy, for example, requires that the physicaland mental condition of the student should be excellent, and that all his faculties should be on the alert, if good results...
...allow himself to be pummelled about, merely because if he hit his opponent so hard that he disabled him, he would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers' "? Either the gentleman who was so badly handled was also ignorant of sparring, or else in an unfit condition to appear; in the former case he would also come under the pale of criticism, in the latter, to what purpose are contestants examined before entering contests? If he knew nothing about sparring, he has himself to blame for the blows he received; if he was unwell, Dr. Sargent...
These peculiarities of King Lear have been thought to make it unfit for the stage. Lamb, in the midst of scathing remarks about one who had mutilated the plot and aspired to improve on Shakspere, asserts that Lear cannot be acted. Such a judgment may be regarded as a bolder impeachment of Shakspere than the mere alteration of a plot, since it condemns, not a part, but the whole, for the purpose for which it was written. For I take it that closet tragedies are not produced until authors get to be more in love with themselves than with nature...
...said that the grounds given by the faculty for prohibiting intercollegiate foot ball were "that foot ball is an unfit game for intercollegiate contests, because notwithstanding however many rules are made, the players becoming too much excited by the nature of the game, break through them...