Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University interests will be in charge of Chalmers Clifton '12, who is leaving soon for Paris. He was a member of the R. O. T. C. last summer, completing the entire course of training. Owing to a recent operation he has been declared unfit physically for active service, and the University has taken advantage of this opportunity to secure him for the work in Paris...
...Today our colleges are open, and will be kept thus all through the war. There are, of course, comparatively, few in attendance, these being chiefly wounded men or others physically unfit to go to the front. Education is vital to the existence of any nation, but freedom must first be assured...
...shoot accurately. As Dr. Sargent points out, if men are to serve and not handicap the army, they must be physically fit to stand up under the strain of first-line service; and participation in athletics is the best way to keep fit. The case of those physically unfit to serve--75 percent. of the student body, says Dr. Sargent--is even more serious. However, it is not too late to mend, and Harvard may well take Dr. Sargent's message to heart...
...University, who, on September 1 next, will be under 32 years of age. No new men under 19 years of age will be accepted. It will be necessary for all new members of the Corps to undergo a strict physical examination by Dr. Lee, and no men who are unfit for service will be allowed to enroll. In addition, these men now in the service who are physically unable to undergo the strenuous intensive training will be honorably discharged on May 7, and they will receive such credit for their year's work, as their instructors may grant
...despatch of an American expeditionary force as many of the sections as necessary will be attached to it. Should additional military forces be sent over by this Government more ambulance units will be created to support them. An excellent opportunity is thus offered to those men physically unfit for military service to "do their bit" for the cause of this country and the Allies...