Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Granting that there is a need for such a journal as he seeks to establish, is not the editor, from a literary point of view, wholly unfit for his position? He is understood to have the support and approbation of the President and Faculty, yet could even its youngest member read the pompous prospectus without blushing for his representative...
BOSTON THEATRE. The play "Drink" is so contrived that it keeps out the objectionable features of "L'Assommoir," which make it unfit for representation, and loses the dramatic and realistic merits of the novel. The chief feature of the play is the delirium tremens scene, which is as repulsive as any one could desire. "Drink" will be presented every night at 7.45, and Saturday at 2, until further notice...
...complaint there may have been formerly, there seems to be little at present. There are, as naturally there must be, some books in the Library that students should be restricted from using. There are rare copies that must be kept from all risk of loss, and costly bindings unfit for careless use. The wisdom of forbidding the circulation of such books is evident. But the source of complaint lies not in these, but in certain books of questionable character which the Library council prudishly, it is said, keep under lock and key, thus depriving us of man's peculiar distinction...
...report that the apparatus of the old Gymnasium would be used in furnishing the new one is without foundation. Those who have the matter in charge say that all the furniture of the Hemenway Gymnasium will be new, as the old apparatus is totally unfit for even its present use, and, if taken apart, could never be put together again...
...these excellent purposes and characteristics of the college paper are joined two evils which must be weighed in forming any just estimate of its worth and usefulness. The first evil is that the student's editorial duties are likely to exhaust his energies, and thus to unfit him for his regular college work. .... The other danger to which the young editor is exposed is that of forming a faulty style...