Word: profitless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard could be entered into whereby the winner of the race between them should be guaranteed funds sufficient for the international contest; and, on the other hand, if Oxford and Cambridge would make a contract with each other similar to the one between...
...excellent a scholar as Professor Croswell in addition to the loss of Professor Dyer, whose scholarship is no less universally acknowledged. It is not here our place to criticise the course of events that led to this wholly unexpected - might we say unwarranted - loss. To us falls the profitless task of expressing deep regret at losing two teachers who have won the esteem and the thanks of so many of our number. We are convinced that we express the true feelings of every man who has had any intercourse with either Professor Dyer or Professor Croswell when we say that...
...good or pleasure results; the process degenerates into a mere effort of memory, and the mind soon relinquishes its hold of what was learned with so little interest. Let any one take the selections given to be committed in our French courses and he will readily see how profitless they are, and how far from serving as representative passages of literature, in knowing which there is some advantage. A man who wishes to be familiar with French literature does not load his mind with the committing to memory of such fragmentary and desultory things. He would rather choose a varied...