Word: unfitness
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...have come back to Harvard after three year's absence and am very puzzled by one thing, the fact that instructors in small courses are judges in their own cause. It is not that they are unfit to judge impartially of scholarship. No one can suggest this. The difficulty is that their marking the abilities of the students they teach makes it impossible for those students to discuss their work with them without feeling that they may be either corrupting their judges or giving themselves away. Could not there be a division of the work of teaching and evaluating...
...appointed one Lewis Silkin to chairman the Housing Committee. Housing Chairman Silkin promptly an nounced that the ?35,000,000 ($175,000,000) slum clearance scheme of the old Conservative County Council would be scrapped as "entirely inadequate." An immediate new survey will cover not only houses legally unfit for habitation, but also basement flats where now live some 100.000 souls. Only six out of every 100 U. S. inhabitants live in New York City, but one tenth of all Britons are Londoners. The new Labor Government in London had instant repercussions in the national Government last week. No sooner...
...flank the meat offering leer in such unsightly fashion at the diner as to discourage even the most ardent devotee of his vitamines and minerals from partaking freely. In short, the only barrier to deficiency disease is the ubiquitous hearts of lettuce, no doubt highly wholesome but at best unfit for daily human consumption...
...burnt sugar; but when it contains substances that fail very little short of being poisonous the last crushing straw has been added. In New York analyses of "Sam Thompson pure rye whiskey" has revealed that it had in it sufficient diethylphthalate, a denaturant causing nausea, to render the liquor unfit for consumption. This is not merely one isolated case, for I think that most of the cheap so-called blends are not only undrinkable slop but also contain quasi-poisons that give the after effects a peculiarly harrowing quality; many have found that on the morning after even the mildest...
...time taken by tutorial work would necessitate reducing the number of courses required for a degree from sixteen to fifteen, but any greater reduction might leave gaps in the student's knowledge which would unfit him for industrial or post-graduate work...