Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidate for an athletic team here in college, it is his bounden duty, from that time on until the team dissolves, to train faithfully at all times. If the members of the freshman team had understood this and had acted accordingly, some of them would not have appeared so unfit to play as they did yesterday. The team must feel the size of their task and must know that only work can bring victory. The time is now short but the decided change for the better which we look for will bring about astonishing results...
...Saturday's game is also condemned. There is a great deal of difference between a game played strongly by both teams, which is necessarily rough, and one when the aim of a team is evidently to knock their opponents out or to use them up so that they are unfit to offer any resistance...
...said that the professors of any particular college are not competent to regulate its discipline and curriculum, we answer that they are in that case unfit for their places, and that better men should be found, and better salaries paid, if necessary, to get them, and not that the government of the college should be handed over to persons burdened with other cares, and whose chief attention is given to other subjects...
...unfortunately, too trite that some men come to college who are unfit to stand alone, and who, therefore, would be palpably assisted by a code of school-boy rules; but it is a gross injustice to put more than a very small minority of college men in this class. The average collegian, though he may fall far short of his responsibility, is yet a better man for having had it imposed upon him, and college is quite late enough to learn of this responsibility. The student with a foundation of manliness cannot, except unjustly, be made to suffer...
Many improvements have recently been made in the rowing tank at Yale. The old barge, which has been used in the tank for the last two years, became unfit for service, and, as a substitute, a long box, properly weighted with lead, has been constructed, containing the slides and appurtenances of a shell. All the corners in the tank have been rounded so that the water is now forced to move as in the Harvard tank-in two currents, one on each side of the shell...