Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a quota set for each district, it is clear that in order to make up the required number, unfit men often must be admitted else the group will be incomplete. In either case this is unfair to a man of ability who may be excluded because the men from his locality have been chosen. A more progressive plan has been adopted at Harvard where men from districts that ordinarily do not prepare for Harvard are admitted if they rank in the first seventh of their class, and other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process...
...report of the Board of Admission. If states that the classical basis was first modified in 1904, when alternatives to a knowledge of Greek were first allowed. Though conceding that Latin has in the past performed "yeoman service" in the capacity of disciplinarian and wooder-out of the mentally unfit, the report contends that the removal of the Latin requirements at this time is not "letting down the bars" to slipshod scholarship. Rather, it is said, the resulting increase in the number of eligible applicants will make competition keener and standards of scholarship higher...
...House Plan as it is here at Harvard, and as it will be at Yale. Save for the educational benefits, which the editors of the Hoot insist on regarding as accidental by-products, the entire system is denounced as a waste of money and a "pandering to the unfit and immature...
...popular that for a few months the lobbies of Manhattan's theatres were infested with actors carrying concealed weapons and even the balconies resembled shooting galleries. In the cinema, obviously, no such presentation of The Spider was possible but it remains an exciting, gruesome and momentarily plausible dilemma, unfit for the hysterically inclined. In the cast, Edmund Lowe is the magician, Lois Moran the heroine, El Brendel a simple-minded spectator who provides comic relief by stealing a hat, asking stupid questions in a thick Swedish accent...
...Washington, D. C.; the National Training School for Girls at Muirkirk, Md.; Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, W. Va. The U. S. contracts with 24 State institutions to care for young offenders. Declared Dr. Van Waters: "Some jails in the Southern and Southwestern districts are old and unfit. . . . Supervision of inmates is in the hands of trusties. . . . These jails present a situation of filth and misery impossible to convey. . . . The best . . . [reformatory] employs disciplinary measures such as silence at meals, marching, formal routine and flogging; the worst is not to be distinguished from a prison...