Word: unfitness
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Their assistance, however, came so late that it failed to receive the reward it merited. The new boat was hastily constructed and hastily forwarded, and reached Saratoga twisted and unfit for use. There were many repairs to be made, and all too little time for practice; and during the race an accident occurred, arising from this hasty construction and lack of time for repairs, which seriously affected the crew's time, and, there is good reason to suppose, their position. The value of the assistance was almost nullified by the delay with which it was given. Let it be this...
...City of Peking," as I recently heard, has been condemned as unfit for sea in a little more than a year from the time of her launching, and is being rebuilt. If such is the condition of American companies, who can wonder that sensible men and women prefer to trust their lives with the English lines, who, at least, "assume a virtue if they have...
...result of the practice of this theory - whether observed in national or in college politics - is not all that can be wished for. It cannot be denied that offices are frequently assigned to persons totally unfit to hold them; and while it would be folly for a student to venture to advance his opinions upon the proper government of a great nation, an expression of his theory of the proper constitution of a college class is by no means so ridiculous...
...responsibility be filled by men who are qualified, and who will do credit to the class. With its success in this respect the class is abundantly satisfied, and we may congratulate Seventy-six that her offices will be filled gracefully and well. An element is poorly represented when an unfit man obtains an office, and not because the office is not filled from its own number. It is this very conception that we wish to destroy, and it raises its head just when we had thought it exterminated. The proper class feeling, which alone should be apparent in this matter...
...writer finds one great danger attendant upon military drill; he fears that men will acquire such an undue fondness for it as to unfit them for "sober civil life." He again states that "these remarks have been prompted by the recent events at Bowdoin College." This is certainly an unfortunate instance for his theory. The drill at Bowdoin seems to have done anything but give the students a restless love for martial pursuits. The Bowdoin men had not learned the first lesson of military life, which is obedience. Men who will sign an agreement to keep all the laws...