Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...changes proposed, all were aware that the game was unnecessarily brutal. But this sudden awakening of the Committee, just before the great game of the year, seemed uncalled for, if not absurd. If was evident that, if the Committee did not know how the game was played they were unfit for their position, while if they did know it, they took an unfair advantage of the students by not making known their views at some sensible time. After this episode, came the famous "Athletic Regulations," and after posing for a few weeks in a silly attitude before the country, Harvard...
...grounds as to be continually surrounded by confusion. There is nothing to prevent the balls from escaping into the road at either side, and the muckers, the curse of the yard, are always on hand to distract the player. To crown all the courts are of turf and consequently unfit for use, for a turf court without the best care and on a poor foundation soil is bound to be a failure...
Resolved : That we shall march in the Blaine procession, merely for the purpose of keeping an old college custom, and do not thereby endorse James G. Blaine, whom we consider unfit for the presidency...
...Union was called to order last night with President Halbert in the chair. The large attendance present gives promise of a year of great interest in the society. The question before the house was, -"Resolved, That party fealty cease when unfit nominations are made." The principal disputants were : affirmative, Jennings, '85, and W. B. Scofield, '87 ; negative, Whitman, L. S., Batten...
...meeting of the Harvard Union tonight, the subject for debate is-Resolved : That party fealty should cease when unfit nominations are made. The debaters are as follows : Affirmative, W. B. Schofield '87, and A. S. Jennings '85; Negatives, E. A. Whitman, L. S., and L. W. Batten...