Word: unfitness
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...faced with the cold fact that about 40% of the young men of our country at ages 21 to 35 are either considered physically unfit to enter training for military service or are fit for limited service only. ... It cannot be said that . . . since the World War . . . the health of young men has improved . . . [although] never before has medical knowledge and skill been at a higher level...
...Cambridge, training in the Harvard camp, continued to live in the regular dormitories and to eat in the dining halls. The camp was not exclusively open to Harvard men, but numbered a great many members from other institutions. Most of the 400 remaining at their studies were either physically unfit, or under the draft age of 20. It was estimated that if the age were lowered to 19, there would be left no more than about 120 enrolled...
Last week, four days after his record-smashing race, 25-year-old Greg Rice, recently voted foremost U. S. amateur athlete, was declared physically unfit for the U. S. Army. Reason: triple hernia...
...That they could have predicted in advance what Selective Service administrators have found-20% of training candidates are unfit because of poor teeth...
Harvard athletic records, indicating that ninety per cent of the undergraduates are participating in the College sports program, give assurance that "we need not worry about the youth of today becoming soft or unfit for whatever share they may have to take in the national defense program." Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, head of the Harvard Department of Hygiene, stated yesterday in his annual report...