Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this new ground outside for the track on Jarvis, and it seems a pity that the turf thereon should not be allowed to harden until it will bear running over it without being cut up. If the men continue to use these bits of ground, they will soon be unfit to ever use for tennis, and will then never be available for anything but scrub games of ball. If the ground is only allowed to harden, both games can be played on them in the future, and thus can a greater amount of good be extracted from our limited fields...
...query, whether or not to give it a strong support for the ensuing year. When Mr. Balch gave up his position there was a strong feeling against his management. Many abuses were allowed to exist which could easily have been checked. Some of the food was unpalatable and unfit to eat, and was served in that condition. Consequently complaints were many and grew stronger and more aggressive as the year drew to its end. And it would not be strange if much of this feeling of dissatisfaction should have passed over to this year, and should prejudice many against...
...country at large, the board of overseers, contrary to popular belief, has decided not to confer the degree of LL. D. on the present governor. The question seems to be simply, whether the university should follow a somewhat questionable precedent and confer a degree upon one who was deemed unfit for it, or, breaking away from this precedent, not to give it this year, and in the future only to those who were deemed especially fitted to receive the degree. It is, of course, unpleasant to mark out in this way some particular man by not conferring...
...true during the warm weather of the middle of June. When a number of men, as sometimes happens, are put into a hot, close room to under-go a three-hour examination, or, indeed, even a shorter one, unless every precaution be taken the air necessarily becomes impure and unfit to breathe, greatly to the disadvantage of those at work. And since the result of a year's work may depend on one examination, it is but fair that the student should not be handicapped in his efforts by poor ventilation...
...National Lawn Tennis Association of which Harvard is a member has decided to set aside the new American combination ball as unfit, and to return to the use of the Ayres ball for the rest of the season...