Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...glee club had no right to spend it in view of its debt to the college and the pressing need of the crew. No one objects to the club having a good time during the trip and after it, but there are a great many who object to needless and selfish extravagance. There seems to be a disposition in glee club circles to regard it as merely a favor that the club gives anything to the crew, or gives a concert for its benefit. It is hardly necessary to point out to the officers of the glee club that...
Money already pledged should, it is needless to observe, be paid in at once, not only because such debts are debts of honor, but because it aids greatly those who are bearing the burden of the work...
...needless to say that all the boating men were much pleased to have Mr. Harry Keyes with them two or three days last week. They always feel that they have something substantial to rest upon when they get his judgment. Mr. Keyes was in consultation with the other members of the Graduate Advisory Committee and the captain nearly all the time he spent in Cambridge. Important matters in regard to the boating, the candidates for the crew and the work of the crew were discussed. The committee seem to be pleased with the showing made by the candidates at present...
...burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat...
...inference from unexplained action keeping these men on probation might well be that honest endeavor to do what is required of men and atone for past short-comings is not sufficient, but that punishment must follow according to the strict letter of the law. It is needless to point out why such an inference would be exceedingly unfortunate. The Faculty owes it to itself and to the students that there be no ground...