Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have left us in no doubt as to the intention. As to the insult to the class suggested by the writer in Wednesday's CRIMSON, I think the laughter at the time of the interruption to the lecture puts that well out of question. Granting that the trick was foolish, granting that it was, meaningless (which would remove the insult), granting that it was too bad to lose the lecture, it is still making a mountain of a mole hill to talk of "insults...
...closing Professor Cohn dwelt on the complete and proven honesty of these men and their devotion to France, and said that the recent newspaper stories of corruption were utterly foolish and impossible...
...class is at stake, there is absolutely no reason why every Freshman who is physically able to play football should not be on Soldiers Field every afternoon. That the squad is not as large as it could and ought to be is quite evident. Furthermore it is foolish to suppose that the incoming class is not up to the average in an athletic way. There must be more available football material, and as it is all needed by the coaches in their development of the eleven as well as to make the team a representative...
...editorial of the current number of the Advocate sets a criterion for contributions which it is sincerely to be hoped will be held to in future. The writer classes a large proportion of his contributions as "Soft Melancholy, Dull Despairing and Dramatically Tragic." He might have added Weirdly Foolish and Sentimentally Tiresome. Unfortunately many past stories of the Advocate have been one or all of these...
...seems needless to remind any one of the loss that such an act brings to the University, not merely in dollars and cents (for it is well-known that similar foolish acts in the past have caused such material loss), but principally in dignity and prestige throughout the country. It would be superfiuous to mention all these things were it not for the fact that several important games-and victorious games, too, we believe-still remain. In view of this, is the whole University patiently to submit to the disgrace of Saturday night? To do nothing to discover the offenders...