Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...foregoing irrefutable torrent of natural history leads right down to the following fair proposition: Why not pretend that we possess that calm and bloodless self-control that the professors pretend to possess when faced with the crushing fact of spring? Why not? This vast effort may seem pointless. But if we make good our pretense as they often manage to make good theirs, yes, in the very Tace of spring, ours will be a great consummation, a true millenium. The barriers of June will be removed, and we will be in a position to say to our professor: "Verily...
...have read with some interest the communication of Mr. Isidor Lazarus in the CRIMSON of October 26, and I must confess that his attack on the Republican sympathizers in the University impresses me as being not only particularly pointless but as eminently unfair and unreasoning. He makes three statements the truth of which I cannot for a moment admit, and from them draws a conclusion which is not only illogical but is also a insult to the intelligence of the majority of men who voted in the recent straw ballot...
...Redfield, M. C., on "The New Industrial Organization," the other is by A. H. Whitman on "Opportunities in Business Training." Mr. Redfield's article, which is the second of a series on "The College Man and Current Problems," is sane and well balanced, but somewhat dull and pointless. Mr. Whitman presents a convincing argument in favor of the training furnished by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. While Mr. Whitman is convincing, he is over modest, for, if the training is as useful as he says it is, it is safe to predict that the School will do more...