Word: needless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...still in college Henshaw, Linn, Boyden and Mumford, so that that there are plenty of vacancies to fill and the prospects for next season are anything but bright. Willard, captain of last year's nine, is back, but has signified his determination not to play any more. It is needless to add that Bingham, who pitched last year, will be debarred from playing this season on account of his connection with professional teams during the past summer...
...brief summary he declared that the bill was prepared by a laborious committee and introduced by an honest chairman. It contained some provisions good and useful, and some needless, wasteful and badly applied. There was an opportunity for fair debate in the House. The Senate loaded it with amendments, some of them iniquitous, and the House conferees yielded to them. It was passed because a majority of the members were interested in some specific appropriation which could not be obtained without voting the whole bill. The President refused his signature, and thus the bill was lost. It failed because, while...
...very prettily played contest from beginning to end, all but two of the errors being very excusable. As the 'Varsity was away Holmes was used instead of Jarvis, and the vast array of empty benches seemed to dampen the enthusiasm of the spectators, and there was no cheering, and, needless to say, no "rattling." The game was the prettiest game of the series so far, and very much the most enjoyable, as it was played strictly on its merits. Eighty-seven made only two fielding errors, which cost her nothing and were most excusable, and Eighty-eight's errors with...
Second, in law a skillful and thorough detective system is employed to ferret out witnesses as well as detect criminals, and thus usually all whose testimony have a bearing upon the case are brought in whether willingly or not. It is needless to add that such a system in college is neither desirable nor possible. The ends for which colleges are established, namely, the training of the mind and character would be defeated by the consciousness to the students that the normal attitude of a faculty towards them was one of suspicion and distrust...
...Gray, who followed for the affirmative, maintained that the world has outgrown large armies. Large armies are a direct encouragement to needless and exhausting wars. This was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. We should live up to the high standard which William Penn reached when he made his great peace with the Indians, an event which Charles Sumner declared to be "the proudest sight which American history records...