Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scheme of General Booth is scientific. - (a) Rebuilds character. - (b) Takes away temptation. - (c) Protects the community by - (1) Isolating the unfit. - (d) Decreases vagrancy: Quart. Jour. Econ. V, 14. - (e) Reverses the tide from cities. - (f) Discriminates between the deserving and undeserving. - (g) Diminishes promiscuous charity...
...dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs to be so watched is not fit for genuine sportsmen"? Nor will it be any easier for men whose livelihood or fame or animal gratifications do not depend upon the game, to disagree with his verdict that it is "unfit for college use." In this be speaks as the educator, mindful of his duty to the young men under his care and to their parents; farther on he speaks as an American citizen who would not see the intellectual and moral standards of his countrymen turned topsy-turvy...
...Annexation is inexpedient. - (a) Bad effect on our social and political institutions. - (1) Uncongenial population. - (2) Unfit for citizenship. - (3) Serious problems involved. - (b) Hawaii would always be colonial, (c) Annexation would establish dangerous precedent...
...player is known to be brutal, he should never be allowed on the field. If a man is or becomes unfit physically, he should be kept out of it. But once and for all, let us not give the youths of the day the impression that the only sports to be indulged in are those which do not call for courage. To the timid, a vigorous, well-fought football game is an unpleasant spectacle, and they shudder to think of the possibilities. * * * A man of courage knows too well the dangers of the game, but he also knows how much...
October was a discouraging month. Mackie and Waters did not return until late, the new men trying to fill their places were playing poorly, and candidates were being injured daily. Four of last year's 'varsity players were so badly injured as to make them unfit for further service. Stevenson had his jaw hurt, Acton dislocated his elbow, Dunlop broke his collar bone, and Gray broke his leg. During October, too, the problem of the coaches changed. Early in the season there had been a dearth of rush line players, and a surplusage of backs. But with the return...