Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...foolish custom of requiring Latin as the "court language" of the college, nearly resulted disastrously for the celebration of Class Day, for in 1802 the faculty passed a vote "that the particular kind of exercise in the Senior class at the time of their taking leave of the college be alone adhered to, and that consequently in the future no performance but a Valedictory Oration in the Latin language be permitted, except music adapted to the occasion." This vote put an effectual stop to any general observance of Class Day. In six years, however, the Faculty repented, and the exercises...
...game, holding Dartmouth down to two singles, and doing some great work in the second when, with men on second and third, he struck out three men. Corbett caught his first really good game. He held the balls well, dropped none of the third strikes, and, except for a foolish throw to first when there was no call for it, played a good all-round game...
...speculator is not much different from the boy who makes some bold dash for victory in his games. The close man who takes the outward things in earnest acts in a foolish manner. It is as if the children in the market place should take their artificial money for real and horde it away. You have a contempt for the boy who looses his temper at play; we should take an example from this in real life...
When a person is young he delights in the lordly nobles of a play, but when he grows older he admires the worth of each individual in his part. The man who is proud on account of his social position is as foolish as the strong king on the stage who glories in his part. True parts are assigned by a power higher than our own. The angel applauds the man for his own worth not for his station or dress...
...best pew. Not many years ago John Ruskin spoke in bitter words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible to reach. All that was honest was unnatural and existed only in poetry...