Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate treasurer, however, cannot oversee the many details in the management of the teams; and the responsibility, therefore, for incurring needless expenses still rests upon the various managers. Their items of expense, the graduate treasurer thinks, can be greatly cut down; and we look to future managers for great improvement in this regard...
With the exception of this seemingly needless expese, then, the report shows the finances to be in a very satisfactory conditions. It is worthy of note that the freshman management of the foot ball and base ball teams was especially careful and successful. In most of the 'varsity teams also, affairs are in an encouraging way, and some of the associations are self-supporting...
...reach with shelves. on which stand the millions of slips relating to different usages of words in all phases of English literature. On other shelves are all the leading dictionaries of the language, open at the particular word under consideration, so that comparison may be made without any needless delay...
...Preserves the policy of the government by keeping gold and silver in use at a parity. 3. 15 a step toward placing our currency on a sound metallic basis. 4. Supplies a legal tender note more useful and desirable than the silver dollar. 5. Does not compel needless coinage of the silver dollar. 6. Gives the Sec. of the Treas. sufficient power to regulate purchase and coinage. The compulsory purchase avoids a vacillating policy In use of the silver...
NOTES:- The recent literature on Schopenhauer, in English, French and German, is now considerable and so easily accessible, that it is needless to give her many bibliographical notes. The best life is the one by Gwinner in the edition of 1878. It is not well to become acquainted with Schopenhauer by means of his briefer essays, before reading the first volume of his "World as Will and Idea," which is by all means the best possible introduction to his thought. Helen Zimmern's "Arthur Schopenhauer" gives a sketch of the Philosopher s life in English, a sketch made valuable chiefly...