Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least half the old players were considered unfit to play in the big games. By the last of October, the Yale team was not in any better circumstances, in spite of the list of veteran players, than the Harvard team. On the day that Harvard won from Cornell by the score of 22 to 12, Yale defeated West...
...Five, 12; Ninety-Six; 0.The second of the class series of football games was played between the seniors and juniors yesterday afternoon and resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 12 to 0. The grounds were a mass of mud and water, making them wholly unfit for good playing. It was so slippery that there was little chance for successful interference and it was consequently a kicking game, in which Jackson out-punted Motley, although the latter made some good kicks. Ninety-five had Doucette, Teele and Jackson, while ninety-six was joined by Warren...
...direct opposition to the true Harvard spirit. The student in the Scientific School differs in only two respects from the student in the college: he has less requirements for entrance and his work is chiefly prescribed. These differences, in the opinion of the faculty, may make him unfit to compete with the college student, but they are certainly not great enough to be the basis for denying him representation when he graduates. The fourth year student in the Scientific School with his fellow student, the senior in the college, elects the class officers and the participants in the programme...
Professor Felix Adler of New York spoke last night at Appleton Chapel on the transition from University life to that of the outside world. University life, he said, is often thought to unfit a man for success in after life, and the question arises, is the scientific training of the University ethically so different from that necessary to attain a definite object, that in which worldly success exists, that it renders a man unable to accomplish anything after his college training? In this connection a college training is understood as a thorough training in science, the bringing...
...Customs Union is undesirable from a Canadian standpoint. Canadan is industrially far behind the United States. A tariff policy framed by the larger and more powerful nation would necessarily be unfit for the weaker...