Word: unfitness
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BOSTON THEATRE. The play "Drink" is so contrived that it keeps out the objectionable features of "L'Assommoir," which make it unfit for representation, and loses the dramatic and realistic merits of the novel. The chief feature of the play is the delirium tremens scene, which is as repulsive as any one could desire. "Drink" will be presented every night at 7.45, and Saturday at 2, until further notice...
...complaint there may have been formerly, there seems to be little at present. There are, as naturally there must be, some books in the Library that students should be restricted from using. There are rare copies that must be kept from all risk of loss, and costly bindings unfit for careless use. The wisdom of forbidding the circulation of such books is evident. But the source of complaint lies not in these, but in certain books of questionable character which the Library council prudishly, it is said, keep under lock and key, thus depriving us of man's peculiar distinction...
...report that the apparatus of the old Gymnasium would be used in furnishing the new one is without foundation. Those who have the matter in charge say that all the furniture of the Hemenway Gymnasium will be new, as the old apparatus is totally unfit for even its present use, and, if taken apart, could never be put together again...
...these excellent purposes and characteristics of the college paper are joined two evils which must be weighed in forming any just estimate of its worth and usefulness. The first evil is that the student's editorial duties are likely to exhaust his energies, and thus to unfit him for his regular college work. .... The other danger to which the young editor is exposed is that of forming a faulty style...
...second objection, and the chief one with instructors, is that scholarships could not be assigned. It is a delicate matter to tell a student that he is unfit for a scholarship when his rank is not based on definite marks. In other words, a false and injurious method is to be maintained, because, forsooth, instructors are afraid to speak the truth unless it is shielded in a specious disguise. It is strange that they do not see that it is all the same, whether they tell a student outright, or mark him and then tell him. However, special examinations...