Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...northern part of Italy I saw a field where the farmers had plowed up the skulls of young men and had piled them up fifteen feet high. In the Napoleonic campaigns 3,700,000 men were killed. Now, these young men were the most fit, and the unfit that were left had to determine the future generations. The Europe of today is far from what we might have expected if the ancient Europeans had been allowed to develop without...
...first Union lecture of the year will be given this evening. The speaker, Dr. Jordan, is in every sense a national character. His unusual subject, better explained, perhaps, by its sub-title, "The Degeneration of the Race Through the Survival of the Unfit," is one which President Jordan's deep knowledge of biology will undoubtedly render vitally interesting...
...looked upon with contempt and disgust by his team-mates, the coaches and by the undergraduates as a whole. This is as it should be, for the athlete in question has deliberately done his best to demoralize his team and lessen its chances of success. He has shown himself unfit for any position in which he is entrusted with the success of other...
Thus it is clear that a great many men make use of the tennis courts, and further that the demand exceeds the supply. And this is in spite of the fact that many of them are unfit to play on; for their surface, if we may so term it, is rough and covered with a substantial dressing of fine dust...
...years, after deducting maintenance charges and the expenses of the team, have averaged about $835. Now it does not seem fair to have this money turned over to furnish a trip for some minor team when the courts upon which about 400 men play daily are in such unfit condition and so inadequate to meet the demand. Two things ought certainly to be done: first, to put the present courts into suitable condition, and then to build more. Aside from the question of providing exercise for the largest possible number of men, the principles of equity demand this change...