Word: useless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Only one of the three rubber tubes for bathing in the bath-room of the gymnasium is servicable. The authorities should look into this matter and repair the useless ones immediately...
...have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes in our young country; but with all respect to the good intentions of the donor, we cannot help feeling that in view of the great wants elsewhere and the superabundance in this locality, the gift is rendered comparatively useless by the conditions which bind...
...would benefit anyone, but such rules as, "eat carefully," "drink carefully," etc., are not always obeyed, even though they have been dictated to the world by many writers for years, and the inevitable result of carelessness in eating and drinking shown. Such rules for improving the memory are then useless we think. Yet the book has many valuable suggestions in it, anyone of which would do one good. A chapter on the use of Narcotics is an example. Towards the end of the book the suggestions for remembering names would be practically valuable. If on introduction the name were carefully...
...training whatever. A few may have been induced to attend the voluntary classes just long enough to dishearten them upon the eve of speaking. Is it any wonder that from such material such results follow? The university has just cause for congratulation that the "dramatic expression" has passed as useless for practical purposes. But that does not aid matters. Men will not spend their time in oratorical drill unless they are compelled to do so by a demand made by the college that public speaking shall in some way be improved. How that end is to be accomplished is questionable...
...principles of the art which they thought they were studying. In other words, the work of which the Shakespeare Club made a signal failure, will continue to be done conscientiously and thoroughly in English II, and in elocution under the direction of the instructor. Any attempt to revive so useless a society - one which brought such disgrace upon the university as it did by its unworthy performance of Julius Caesar - is uncalled for and wholly undesirable...