Word: fruitlessness
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...into a large number of small groups, for the most part isolated and distinct from one another. Pre-college acquaintanceships and preparatory school friendships from the basis of this class subdivision. This is the prevalent condition that causes President Lowell to remark that "exhortation and advice are well-nigh fruitless without a favorable environment...
...candidate selected as first assistant manager will in all probability be elected manager for next year. The competition lasts for five weeks, closing November 23. Candidates should plan to give as much time as possible to the work. Sporadic and disheartened excursions into the realm of business are usually fruitless...
...efforts of the captain and coach will be fruitless of the candidates for the team do not respond by regular attendance at the practice. The coming three weeks will enable the coach to become acquainted with the members of the squad--an absolute essential to success,--and will give the new men an excellent opportunity for becoming prominent earlier next fall...
After several years of experience with Intercollegiate football, after careful consideration of the criticisms which have been made of the game, and after the many honest but fruitless efforts to change it so that these criticisms could be avoided, I have become convinced that the game as it is played today has fundamental faults which cannot be removed by any mere technical revision of the rules...
...stock of more than about a million volumes; and have other places of storage for the least useful volumes. If the idea of a limited library could once be accepted, the classification of books on the shelves could be made reasonably permanent, and many sources of waste or fruitless expense dried...