Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...good many articles have recently appeared in various papers about the college man in business, and extremists have gone so far as to assert that college unfits a man for a business career. This in general we cannot agree with. There are undoubtedly cases where the freedom of college life does unfit men for business; there is even such a thing as the "university fool" who is unfitted for everything. But he is not a typical college man. If he graduates a fool it is not the fault of the college but of the man himself...
...present party system is bad. (a) It results in government for the machine instead of for the people. Goldwin Smith in North Am. Rev. vol. 155, p. 582. Hence (1) Rotation in office; (2) Geographical appointments; (3) Unfit or corrupt officials. Roosefelt: Practical Politics, pp. 11-41. (b) It results in responsibility to the party, not to the people. (c) It gives undue influence to certain sections; Chinese and Silver questions. (d) Strict party government results in a rule by but little over one-quarter of the voters...
...Recent reforms have been due to independent action where party fealty has failed. (a) Pension Reform; (b) Civil Service Reform; (c) Rejection of unfit candidates. Delamater; Maynard...
Here Emmons, who had long been unfit to play, was literally dragged from the field. Arthur Brewer took his place, and immediately Knipe went round his end for 43 yards. It was Pennsylvania's turn to cheer...
...Experience shows Utah to be unfit for statehood: Colfax and Taylor. Mor monism 11 et seq-(a) Institutions not republican, but theocratic-(b) People ignorant and in complete subjection-(c) Institutions polygamous.-(d) They sanction crime and evasion of law: Disloval teachings of Mormon Hierarhv, p. 10-(e) Opposed to Federal authority: Utah Commission...