Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while Congressmen talked in Washington, staged filibusters and many a fistibout, legislators were active in less-known legislative halls throughout the 48 states. And none more so than Kansas, for they passed a bill repealing the anti-cigaret law (TIME, Jan. 31), a law prohibiting marriage for the physically unfit and a bill repealing the blue law against Sunday movies. Last week the session came to an unexpected climax as legislators stirred drowsily in their seats in the Kansas senate chamber, waiting the noon recess. One Edgar Bennett, State Senator, rose, called up a resolution petitioning Congress...
...Unfit for public rule or private care...
...worthy of higher education as it is applied under the new principle. That this extreme is nonsense, the Tutorial system at Harvard clearly demonstrates, but it is nevertheless true that state universities particularly, and endowed colleges to a less degree, admit at present many unfit for higher education. This too the Tutorial system has disclosed by placing so much more emphasis on mind, so much less on memory...
...within the space of a few weeks. The only explanation that is sufficiently vague to be true is that of failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable, remorseless environment, an environment of natural hardship and of social horror. The biologist would claim it to be the elimination of the unfit in the struggle for existence, and as such a natural and beneficial part of the law of life. The theologian must interpret it in different terms, no less valid. It is an integral problem of modern life, and those who seek its solution in terms of death are at least...
When colleges to "salvage" those who have proved themselves unfit or uninterested by easing requirements to allow them to return, they are discriminating against the many applicants who must be turned away without a first chance. By such a policy the college would turn out mediocre students at the expense of many real scholars whose work would be held up the lagging of the salvaged few. Amherst Student...