Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...individual household saves little white flour by using graham twice a week, so we conserve only a relatively small amount of fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...
...effect of this on colleges will not be slight. By giving to numerous institutions a semi-military character, the training units must surely attract those coming undergraduates who hesitate in entering. No one can feel that his further education is needless, if that is combined with preparation for a commission. In the face of decreasing enrolments, much encouragement lies in the fact that universities will come to include men who want military instruction...
...second suggestion is that writers hereafter give the addresses of such places. This might be needless for such well-known resorts as the "Midnight Frolio" and "Castles in the Air," but when Mr. La Farge was introducing a new one to Harvard men, he should have given the location. The oversight will be pardoned this time, but Mr. La Farge might have saved his readers the trouble of making inquiries or looking through a directory on their next trip to New York...
...needless to expand upon the neces- will reach the masses of the students. It sity of some medium of exercise which seems to me that skating is such a medium, and that flooding and freezing of Jarvis field would be highly expedient and comparatively inexpensive method of attaining it. WILFRED B. FRIGA...
After all, the interests of an undergraduate publication lie chiefly with the undergraduates. Some day needless rivalry will cease and the Advocate-Monthly will be the result...