Word: fruitlessness
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...being universally popularized, perhaps because of its many good results. Skill, endurance, and grit are the attributes of a good scuiler, and these same elements are necessary to men in all walks of life, so whatever your indulgences may be in sculling, they certainly will not be altogether fruitless...
...which opens in Washington today is a prominent phase of a great metamorphosis through which the world is passing. At no other time within the memory of man has the whole earth so nearly approached the status of a single unified community. Any comparisons, therefore, with past ages are fruitless; any judgments on the theory that "history repeats itself" are out of date; and any prophecy as to the future on the basis of what has gone before is entirely unsafe. For we live in the age of geographical-graphical distribution of industry, all parts of the globe being interdependent...
Conventions in general are notorious for wasting time in fruitless discussion; nothing promises more for the success of the M. I. T. Conference than the fact that it is being approached systematically. By apportioning business to various departments and by arranging a sane schedule of meetings, the executive committee has achieved what should prove an effective program. It is the avowed purpose of the delegates to discuss problems of undergraduate government and student activities; but as the committee has pointed out, such consideration "must be limited to the discussion of organizations and not traditions. "Students at large will gauge...
...Executive Committee of the Conference realizes that its meetings may easily degenerate into periods of fruitless argumentation, and, by such means as requiring a "definite program," is taking every precaution to avoid this weakness. Even this danger, however, is no excuse for the attitude of the Student Council...
...committee in charge of the arrangements for the M. I. T. intercollegiate conference to be held April 15 and 16 have made several important provisions for the prompt carrying on of the business of the meeting with a minimum amount of fruitless discussion. Each of the 41 colleges represented has been asked to send in to the executive committee in advance a definite list of the topics it wishes to have discussed. The executive committee will be in charge at all meetings, and will have the power to limit the discussion and argument to topics of major importance...