Word: unfitness
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...Oxen, which revolves about the metamorphosis of an elderly woman into a frisky flapper through a rejuvenating glandular operation, was removed from the shelves of public libraries in Rochester, N. Y., by Mayor Van Zandt, at the request of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The reason given was: ' Unfit for the minds of young people...
...reason for this action was not that Hubbard would be physically unfit for the four-mile test, for the doctors' have expressed themselves as optimistic over the healing of his wrist. It is felt, however, that it is now too late to make any change, and that it will be for the interest of the crew to continue rowing in the same order as was announced after Hubbard's injury. The combination, with A. L. Hobson '24 in at 5, is working very smoothly and Coach Muller with-the Yale contest only one week off, is against making any shift...
...committee concludes that it is all a matter of scholarship--and it proceeds to suggest a raising of entrance requirements on the basis of studies alone. Its ideas in that direction are constructive, and will undoubtedly accomplish their immediate purpose--that of cutting out those who are mentally unfit. The fact that grades are only a partial index of mental capacity is a truism which the committee has been obliged to ignore...
...books, but rather wall maps, and mathematical games; no paper pads, but slates. Competition is emphasized; the clever rewarded; the dull punished. And, more than all, there is Professor Thomas. Admiral Goodrich would reproduce the system as well as may be without the Professor. He would weed out the unfit and set them to their proper tasks. The fit he would educate to greater fitness. And throughout the process he would select and choose and apply, avoiding as he would the devil the folly of "trying to make high-speed tools out of pig iron...
...Army tests of mental capacity were undoubtedly imperfect", Professor Langfeld said, "but they did serve as a rough measure of intelligence, and as such were very useful in eliminating the mentally unfit. These tests probably did injustice to many individuals, but did separate men into groups which served the purpose for which the tests were devised. It was found that nine out of ten men receiving an A or B in the examinations obtained commissions, while the chances of a C minus or D man obtaining a commission were extremely slight...