Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classics were the central point of college education. Today they are not only useless, but a serious hindrance to pursuing a rational program of study. The CRIMSON has protested against them from time to time, not because they involve work in the dead languages, but because they are utterly pointless from any angle of criticism. According to the "Rules Relating to College Studies": Candidates for the degree of S.B., in order to receive Honors (in English), must show an elementary knowledge of either Greek or Latin equivalent to what is required for candidacy for the A.B. The requirement...
...smuggled into the U. S., this is the first "authorized abridged" version. It is authorized by Lawrence's widow, would never have been permitted by Lawrence himself. For the book, now made respectable by excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version is the same...
...case this may all seem unnecessary and pointless it might be well to add on the fact that today Professor Webster at nine will talk on Britain and the British in the New Lecture Hall...
...regrettable experience to watch the unfolding of such a ridiculous and pointless story, under direction that indicates a total lack of dramatic perception on the part of James Whale. Better luck next week...
...drawn a burlesque advertisement of "The Ham What Am!", with a large photograph of Crooner Rudy Vallee. When Editor Anthony read that Vallee's mother was dying, he raced to the printer, had the face deleted from the picture, intending to let the whole page pass as pointless. To his distress, he found the result still easily recognizable as Vallee...