Word: unfitness
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...mustard gas and Lewisite which are toxic poisons to anything that they touch," added Captain Phillips, "the only protection is a suit, similar to oilskins, that covers the whole body but which so hampers a man as to make him unfit for actual combat...
Rowing is a good illustration of a fact often overlooked, that the receipts of the Harvard Athletic Association are used not only for developing a professional skill in a few students who are already strong but for exercising great numbers of students many of whom are constitutionally unfit for intercollegiate competition. In one or two sports the University squad alone contains men enough to make a small college. The total number of students benefited by the receipts of the Harvard Athletic Association goes into the thousands...
...list of men at the Infirmary--was not given--crowded out by "Murad" or "English ovals". On your editorial page there was one communication from a Student, a Princeton Freshman, reprinted from the N. Y. Times. Have Harvard men nothing to say, or is what they say unfit for publication? GEORGE L. PAINE...
...location for the displaced handball courts, it has been decided to tear down the old bowling alleys and erect new courts in their place. Ever since the war time period when these alleys were used as a storeroom, they have been unfit for play and their removal will make room for the five new handball courts. The present boxing room will also be transformed into courts, it being expected that at least four small-sized playing areas can belayed off there...
...from the Harvard bench. In short, the baseball players from America's oldest university play ball with the spirit that it is pleasure to meet another college in honest conflict and because the college is opposing them does not of necessity indicate that its athletes are burglars halfwits, or unfit for the society of the ordinary run of human beings...