Word: useless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...know of no more pleasant and useful way of passing a few hours of the vacation than by following the suggestion of the Secretary of the Class of '85 in regard to the class lives of Seniors. By many this is regarded as a useless custom, and few we think look upon it as an unalloyed pleasure. However, it is a duty or a pleasure, in which ever may it is regarded, which everyone ought to perform, and we hope the present Senior Class will be fully alive to the necessity of aiding the Secretary in this important branch...
...championship, when the world knows she has not, let her enjoy this childish amusement. It does not concern us. When, however, she begins to quote Harvard, and Harvard opinion, a little more regard for the truth must be shown. Princeton undoubtedly prolonged the Thanksgiving game with useless wrangling. Did it ever occur to Yale that she is now doing the same sort of thing which she so strongly condemned in her rival...
...gloomy and full of despair as if they were engraved in "grinding out" a calculus lesson or making up a condition in Freshman Algelba, Careful count is kept of every motion, and when the reacquired number is reached, with frightened countenance the ropes are dropped. Such exercise is useless. Exercise to be benefit had must been treed into with anticipated pleasure and with zest. And this is just the spirit which our new assistant is trying to infuse into what, before have been to many irksome tasks. We never till now, realized Low necessary is an instructor in gymnasium work...
...should suppose that mere politeness would have led them to notify our team; but nothing of the sort was done. By an accident this remarkable freak on the part of Yale was learned by a Harvard man in New York, and a telegram from him saved our eleven a useless trip to New Haven. And now Yale alleging some at all. Therefore of Yale may possibly be explained by the fact that Harvard undoubtedly has a strong team this year. However that may be, Harvard must now content herself with a forfeited game in place of a probable victory...
...class had had a third meeting and decided not to play after all. With beautiful disregard they here dropped the matter. They were not accountable for our actions-what mattered it if we all did come down to New Haven? By a mere chance we were saved the useless trip; it was no fault of theirs, though. Now we leave you to decide if the game is not justly ours...