Word: purposeless
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...been allowed no choice at all, is unable to make good use of the unlimited choice that is suddenly thrust upon him? Is it any wonder that his choice of these last two years, which should be the perfect crown of his whole education, is often badly balanced, purposeless and haphazard...
...site of the old Catholic Church on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. He and Dr. Worcester will discuss that plan today. The success of this suggestion is necessarily conditioned by the amount of interest shown in the project among the undergraduates. It is of course purposeless to artificially stimulate such interest for that would mean simply a repetition of the recent Memorial Hall fiasco. But it is worth while to point out that into Administration must depend upon material evidence of a desire for club tables and a University dining hall, that it cannot go ahead...
...Council's Committee on Education. That this is not alone the result of the publishing of the committee's report is fairly patent; but that it owes much to the suggestions contained in the report has been admitted by the biology department. Concentrated, constructive criticism has not deployed into purposeless channels in this case...
...plot without rhyme or reason. They live in nice places, picnic and go trout-fishing whether at home or in the Pyrenees for financial reasons, have their jokes and family catch-words in a delightful idyllic existence. If a reader is reconciled to a purposeless book that smells of what the English country life should be (and the combination has refreshing elements) the flavor of "The Dinosaur's Egg" is sufficiently delicate to make one wish that such eggs were a staple commodity on the market...
...score of centuries without the slightest warning. He finds himself on a fated galley, the Ship of Ishtar, peopled with two hostile factions factions, the puppets of contending deities. From this point begins a bizarre tale, absorbing enough in itself, but constantly interrupted by the hero's inexplicable and purposeless transubstantiation to a modern American gentleman for the nonce...