Word: foolishness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Park to parties who will probably cut it up into building lots. The park comprises fifty-one acres, and for the past twenty years has served the college as a general athletic field. Several years ago efforts were made to buy it for the college, but the owners were foolish enough to demand an unreasonably large price, which, of course, the college was unwilling to pay, although it would have made a far more desirable athletic field than the one we now have. - Yale News...
...rate, entirely unnecessary to declaim against the decision of the "one judge" on the ground that he was a Harvard graduate. The statement that the members of the Harvard team admitted that Yale had won the event has absolutely no foundation, and is evidently a foolish, partisan exaggeration. No stress can be laid on the fact that the Yale men carried their representative off the field, for that action was certainly premature, and, as was proved by the decision of the judges, had no foundation in fact...
...rowing and foot-ball, where predis-positions can only be overcome by exciting contests in which they become actively interested. For many men on being asked if they have ever seen a lacrosse game, answer, "No, and I never want to!" Such men should be ashamed of their foolish and obstinate disregard of what is growing to be one of the most popular sports of this country. Let them go to Holmes Field this afternoon and make up their minds whether they "never wish to see another lacrosse game or not;" we assure them that they will wish...
...late our English department has been subjected to considerable criticism from one source or another, - criticism which seems for the most part due to ignorance of the facts. While it would be foolish to say that the department is in every respect well conducted, that it is perfect, yet those who have been out of college for a year or more actually do not know what work is being done in English to-day. Accordingly, for the benefit of those who know not the present as well as those who know not the past of our English department, we should...
...reference to college journalism an exchange advances the statements that students like to criticise, that faculties dislike to be criticised, and as a result that a college paper cannot give satisfaction both to students and faculty at the same time. These statements, although obviously so foolish, are worth notice because they voice the opinion of many unthinking readers who consider that the sole aim of the college press is to "grind" the faculty and carry on a sort of warfare against the existing powers...