Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secondary importance. President Eliot and the overseers, fortunately for themselves, do not board at Memorial Hall. Perhaps it might not be unwise to invite them to take their meals there for a month, and then ask them their opinion of Mr. Balch's management. I have intimated that food unfit to be eaten has been placed on the tables. It would be easy to give instances of this if they were not too disgusting to be mentioned...
...handful of good athletes will play base-ball in the spring and foot-ball in the autumn, and that will be all." This is certainly a gloomy prospect. But even at the worst we should hardly be reduced to this, as a large part of Holmes field is unfit for building purposes on account of a deep quick-sand. But any such encroachments on the fields now devoted to athletics are indeed "in strange contrast with the enthusiastic indorsement of home athletics given by the athletic committee and by the president in his annual report." The athletic committee recognizing that...
...building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances of the mason and the carpenter...
...Louis Post-Dispatch says that the State University of Missouri is wretchedly managed and poorly supported. "Its buildings are unfit for their purposes, the class-rooms are insufficient and badly heated, there is no accommodation worth speaking of for students, and the zeal and energy so creditably shown by all connected with the university - curators, faculty and students - are painfully mocked by the contrast with the ancient, rickety and poverty-stricked quarters in which learning is compelled to house itself. The State of Missouri has been badly advertised abroad for years. In the older days border raids, guerillas and reprisals...
...nature of a violent personal attack upon the steward. Whatever may be said of Mr. Balch in his capacity as steward, he is, so far as we know, a perfectly honorable man, and therefore incapable of wittingly serving to boarders at Memorial meat which was tainted or unfit to eat. If the contrary is true, and can be proved by our contemporary, we will admit ourselves to be mistaken, and commend the article in question as timely and just. Until this is done, however, we will give Mr. Balch the benefit of the doubt, and assume that, if tainted meat...