Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...promises. He said: When young men start out in life they know that perseverance and industry will bring them success, but this success may be far different from what they anticipated. There are many professors here today who entered college with no thought of teaching, but God saw fit to open up for them this life of usefulness and renown...
John William Young, '91, died of peritonitis in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. He was a graduate of Atlanta College, Georgia. After graduating, he remained at his university for a few years as a teacher, until wishing to fit himself better for his position, he came to Harvard to study. Entering the senior class this year, he worked hard at his studies, besides acting as a clerk every night at Auburndale. During the time that he has been at Harvard he has made many close friends who were devoted, to him during his sickness. In fact he has received the greatest attention...
...long been at the head of the department of German in that institution. Although a comparatively young man, Prof. Palmer is a man of great breadth of mind and extraordinary critical ability. His ten years' experience as a professor on the Western Reserve and his erudition well fit him for his duties at Yale, which he will begin next September...
...this age of special research the college laboratory is an indispensable agent in the work of personal investigation to which modern students are devoted. This work of investigation is expensive, and it is only the richly endowed colleges that can afford to fit out proper laboratories. At such a rich college, then, as Columbia one expects to find laboratories in which some of the scientific investigation of the day is being carried on. Not even here can such good results be obtained as in Germany where investigators like Dr. Koch receive liberal subsidies from the government...
...effectually to do away with this dampness within a reasonable cost, and we suspect that the baseball players will be forced to stand it the rest of this season. An attempt has been made to carry on the practice of the batteries in some warmer place, but no fit place can be found. The baseball men lay great store by the practice they get during the winter, so that it is a matter of no small moment that they are obliged to work under these unfavorable conditions...