Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always a crank. After a three hours' trial, he leaves the examination room, feeling, perhaps, well satisfied with his work. Soon, however, he meets A. and B., with whom he eagerly goes over the questions. He finds a dozen or so of his mistakes. After this he is hopeless. He throws himself upon his acquaintances, begging them to take a hand in the carving, and in a short time he has the examination nearly dissected, his only recompense being the loss of his peace of mind and that of his much consulted friends...
...sufficient stimulus for many a young man, whether in college or out, and the distinction thus won would be a great help to him. By this plan the deserving and gifted young man would be brought to the front, and would take the places now too often taken by hopeless mediocrity. Many a dormant talent would come forward, and in a few years we should see a scientific enthusiasm never before witnessed...
...freshman foot-ball elevens and base-ball nines to encounter defeat at the outset. How familiar to us have grown such phrases as "freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary end. It would be strange, indeed, if eighty-nine did not possess sufficient and suitable material to form a good eleven. There are good men in the class, and they need only the proper encouragement to go on the field...
...Edwin Dudley, Sec'y of the Nat. Law and Order League, followed Prof. Peabody. He gave a brief sketch of the history of the League, showing how much the cause resembled the cause of slavery, how hopeless both had seemed at first. The first league was formed in Chicago, in 1877, with the purpose of enforcing the liquor laws passed in Illinois in 1860. During the intervening eight years, only two arrests had been made, neigther of which resulted in conviction. In a very short time the League had turned into the city treasury, over $1,300,000 from fines...
...would most naturally suppose. The college has divided on purely party lines, one contingent arraying itself under the banner of the G. O. P., the other, and smaller, division espousing the cause of the Democracy. As we have said, the Mugwumps, or perhaps better the Mugwumpines, are in a hopeless minority, therefore everything went satisfactorily for the followers of the Man from Maine, until quite recently...