Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then a supposedly meaningless exhibition game with the Eastern Olympics turned the tide -- awfully. Harvard dissipated a 7-3 third-period lead and lost in overtime, 8-7. Exhibition or not, Crimson confidence was hurt. Hurt most of all was goalie Bill Diercks. Under pressure from the television crew to let Eastern network fans see the young star, Coach Cooney Weiland threw Diercks on the ice for the final minutes. With no chance to warm up or get emotionally prepared, Diercks let in three goals on four shots. It may be coincidential, but the mystique that was building around Diercks...
...twice in the final period by a puck and a defenseman, lost his valiant shutout bid on a solo effort by Yale's Rick McCarthy with less than eight minutes to play. Pete Markle got the Blues' second goal at 14:15, and Wint Ritchie gave the Bulldog a meaningless third on a breakaway...
...Committee on Educational Policy has proposed changes in Harvard's rank list system which would sacrifice a reasonable attitude on grades for well-intentioned but meaningless precision...
...thinkers to decide that the concept of the just war was simply no longer applicable in modern times because a nuclear exchange would kill so much of the world's population that whatever good might be aimed for-freedom, for example-would itself be wiped out and rendered meaningless through nearly universal destruction...
Popular election of presidents would spur competition in one-party states. Undoubtedly it would lift the percentage of registered voters participating in presidential elections, since otherwise meaningless votes--for Democrats in Republican states and the other way around--would at last count for something...