Word: footless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...courses. In these courses it is customary to devote half of one hour each week to a short paper on the assignment of reading and to spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such discussion, if properly conducted, might well be profitable, but unfortunately it is often absolutely footless--a mere matter of form, and time thrown away. Obviously enough one question to be answered in twenty minutes can not always be a fair test of a hundred or more pages of scattered reading. Would it not be better, since the outlay for competent assistants is necessarily limited, either...