Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridgewater" said Mr. Geer, "I had an opportunity to sit in at the postponed annual meeting of the Massachusetts High School Athletic Association. I never sat through a meeting where the discussion seemed so pointless. Principals of schools were attempting to formulate a set of uniform eligibility rules for all schools in the state. They failed to recognize the utter impossibility of such a task, for conditions vary too much in different sections of the state. The athletically related group of schools in one district may very well have certain athletic traditions of a desirable nature that are not common...
...with thankful hearts that the public begins to see the Oil-Scandal scareheads fading from the newspapers. Now that the air is beginning to clear, Senator La Follette and his iconoclastic apostles are likely to elicit little sympathy with their pointless attack on the new attorney-general. This diligent unearthing of tenuous "Wall Street connections" begins to cloy even the ravenous palates of Western farmers...
...that the Graduates' Magazine excused it by saying "That no incompatibility existed between one's membership in Harvard College and a dignified participation in political affairs, even in a strictly partisan way." Evidently, from this, some liberalist, best-man sentiment was in the air to call out an otherwise pointless apology. Of these two ancient rivals, the Republican Club was the longer lived, and as an Oxonian remarked, "It outdid any society for diffusion of knowledge-or ignorance!" It sent out 30,000 speeches, and held torch light processions of some brilliancy...
...question has been dropped by common consent until all the facts have been made public". I quote from your editorial of March 15th. In the same editorial you describe as "pointless and ill-advised" the action of the Liberal Club in taking a stand against any limitation of numbers on the basis of race or religion. I should simply like to suggest that one of the most important and indispensable "facts" that can possibly be said to bear upon the problem is the attitude of the students themselves toward racial groups within the College. And nothing more helpful...
...printing communications it is customary for the CRIMSON to safeguard itself with a formal statement disclaiming responsibility. The sentence printed today seems so appropriate that the usual precaution is omitted. Regardless of opinion on the subject which the Liberal Club discussed, a formal declaration of its creed was pointless and ill-advised. Between the means of publicity which the club undoubtedly has at its disposal and the not unnatural tendency of the newspapers towards the sensational, it will not be surprising to see metropolitan headlines declaring that "Harvard Students Decide Against Limitation." A real decision cannot be reached at this...