Word: unfitness
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...college journalism is the best extra-curriculum activity, except to point out that in his enthusiasm he has perhaps forgotten some of its drawbacks. For it must of necessity lag behind parchesi in the development of fighting qualities, and its training is apt to make a young man totally unfit to write triolets or sing to anything but a bassoon. Perhaps the only thing an undergraduate does learn from it is not to take himself seriously for he has great opportunity to see how flippantly everyone else takes...
...That an immigration statute be enacted to select immigrants for our needs, to exclude the unfit and non-naturalizable, to register all aliens resident in this country, to deport all aliens convicted of crime...
...these classes, including the majority of immigrants, which have the largest families and contribute the largest share of paupers, defectives and diseased per- sons. Birth control information, if available to them, would improve the quality of the race by cutting off at its source the multiplication of the unfit or the unfortunate. Public clinics in the Netherlands and other countries, operating without Government opposition, have apparently had beneficial effect. Most advocates of birth control do not wish to remove all restrictions, but simply to make it legal for properly qualified persons, as physicians, public health officers or nurses, to give...
...That Canada prohibit the clearance of ships of less than 250 tons carrying liquor to any port in the world (the inference being that such small vessels are unfit for high seas trade and only intend to smuggle liquor into this country...
...intended only for men who plan definitely to go into the ministry, or who have a natural inclination that way. It is meant for every college man who has a decided purpose for his life in whatever profession or line of business even if he feels he is unfit to make it what he wants it to be. As far as the ministry is presented it will be from the undergraduates and recent graduates point of view, as well as from that of older men who have the confidence of the present student generation...