Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...needless for me to point the moral of this tale, but what (fresh) man hath done, that (fresh) man can do. Let me assure the freshman nine that the game will be an object of great interest to many others than the members of their own class, and that none will take more pleasure in seeing them win the game than those members of the class of '81 who may have the good fortune to be present...
...have been guilty of adultery or perjury or forgery; but the questions on which they do seek information are in some cases only a degree less insulting to those to whom they are addressed. The information of this sort which they collect and spread before the public, it is needless to say, excites no other feeling than disgust in the mind of every one at all sensitive to the claims of decency and propriety. Like other matters of taste it is not a subject for argument. It is difficult to see how any instructor in an institution where such...
...instance of the exact position the reviewer holds, the following quotation may be taken: "How long," he laments, "how long will Harvard and Yale insist upon being the sleepy hollows of political economy, from which pupils emerge with ideas that have been obsolete for a century?" It is needless to remark that the italics are not those of Mr. Dixwell...
...published several years ago. Harper's Bazar also lacks originality and copies a late joke from the Lampoon, entitled "Etiquette - 'But I can't let ye up stairs till ye've put yer name in the dish,'" with a drawing almost facsimile of the original, without, it is needless to add, due credit being given. All of which affords interesting reflections upon the degeneracy of public morals...
...changes made by the convention in the constitution of the association and in the playing rules of the game were in the main excellent. The new regulations in regard to umpires will, it is hoped, prevent a good deal of needless bickering and fault-finding and will assure honest, impartial decisions in games...