Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although we have not taken the trouble to make a complete canvas, we have direct evidence that a number of men in training have been kept awake several hours at a time by pointless cheering and singing. It would seem, therefore, that putting the whole matter on the basis of loyalty to the athletes who represent us, some general sentiment should be started to stop these unreasonable disturbances which occur with startling frequency. If a general sentiment is not effective there are other methods of suppression, less gentle, but perfectly justifiable...
...Illustrated Magazine to save the whole number from a failure. The illustrations--the principal reason for the existence of the magazine--are, excepting the frontispiece, diminutive, indistinct and ordinary. The review of the football season is choppy and not always in good English; while "The Spirit of Football" is pointless from first line to last. Though timely in choice of topic, the editorials are inadequate in treatment and betray an attempt at force by the too common artifice of writing at the top of one's voice. "O-Yuki-San's Love" is almost photographic in its vivid description...
...drawings, stories and poems selected from old numbers. These are well chosen, and, printed with the authors' names and the number of the volume in which they are found, they make an unusually entertaining number. Although some of the drawings are taken from very early volumes, they are not pointless, by any means, and some of them apply very well to the life of today. The "Manners and Customs of Ye Harvard Studente" by F. G. Attwood '79, make a set of pictures in which the author has caught the spirit of his scenes in a remarkably happy way. Other...
...number of the Advocate which is issued this morning deserves especial commendation, except in the editorial department. The first editorial complains of a state of affairs and a spirit that has long ago ceased to exist. The second is pointless. But the rest of the articles reach a plane high enough to bring the number above the ordinary run of Advocates, in spite of this editorial weakness...
...should like to protest, through your columns, against the behavior of the crowd toward some of the players in the Bates game. The pointless jeering at men who represent their College and who are working their hardest for the team, is the very height of bad taste. The noise occurred, not in the admission stand, but in the centre of the season ticket section, and consequently must have come, in part at least, from undergraduates. Harvard men have always treated opposing teams with courtesy; why should they now cheapen themselves by making members of their own team the butt...