Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great part our mother universities have played in the war. We have seen Harvard much affected, but compared to Oxford and Cambridge the changes here have been insignificant. The academic life at these English colleges is nearly at a standstill; only a handful of wounded soldiers and physically unfit still work at their old tasks. Many of the colleges have quartered in them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic case to the modern air of military vigor. Apparently the old traditions have been lost forever. But we have the word of the Archbishop...
...bank, where they will find investment, or buy Liberty Bonds. Pity the well-meaning though selfish business man, who shouts from the housetops "business as usual," but learn that wars are won through economy in non-essentials, rather than in pernicious ignorance which maintains an industrial organization entirely unfit for war-time needs...
...many officials have been accused of willfully holding up the great national work. The New York Times, a powerful Democratic organ, has devoted a series of editorials to the argument that the President, despite his great genius for moral and intellectual leadership, has handicapped his administration by appointing "unfit men to places of very great trust and responsibility," and by retaining them "after their unfitness has been demonstrated...
...case of a reduction in the age limit, colleges would probably suffer most of all. The student body would be composed largely of the unfit. We dislike the idea of such a contingency, for we feel that colleges are of vital importance to a country, especially in time of war. Here are developed many of those who will become national leaders, as well as military officers. But as Professor Johnston points out, the present time demands drastic action. If the Government needs men nineteen years of age, the colleges must make an additional sacrifice...
...tradition. Yet we have learned our lesson; the necessity of knowing details has been impressed upon us. Glittering generalities are things of the past; the present officer must know how many men are in the Philippine Constabulary and on what date the transports leave for Hawail, otherwise he is unfit. In the old days to have some idea of the position of a soldier qualified one for an A, now to pass one must have studied Moss' Officers Notes and know perfectly what the officer's wife must take with her to the Canal Zone. The war of attrition...