Word: useless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ability to enter the public service is one of the most pressing problems of municipal reform. Efficient Americans see in the service of corporations an opportunity to rise, while they see in municipal government only a machine that has long since been proved to be absolutely useless. To obtain better machinery in municipal government, then, is an object to be desired. This end would be furthered by an increase in state supervision over and in popular control of our city governments. State supervision has enormously increased in recent years, practically all the taxing powers of the city having been taken...
...recent years that most students find no occasion whatever for rising before 8 o'clock. Why, then, should those who live within sound of this bell be subjected to a continual annoyance? The 7 o'clock clang performs no conceivable useful function and only serves to add a useless discomfort to the list that already prevails in Yard dormitories...
...University baseball team shut out Bates yesterday 4 to 0. Lanigan throughout the game was invincible, and only one man reached second, which was the result of an error. Three scattered hits were all that Bates could boast of at the bat, and two of those were absolutely useless, as Lanigan caught both men off first by quick throws to Briggs...
...CRIMSON took its stand against abolition of winter sports and stated the reasons that have been repeated so often throughout the long one-sided discussion. The unfair discrimination that would follow the passing of this pending vote is further dealt with in communications this morning, and it is useless to dwell longer on that phase of the question...
...members of the hall into closer touch with the directors, and increase if possible the attractiveness of the present system. They by laws contain a provision that "no tobacco shall be used on the premises." We have found one of the chief objections to the hall in this useless provision. The old maxim of "After breakfast walk a mile, after dinner rest a while," can scarcely be observed, when it is necessary to walk a quarter of a mile or more before enjoying a quiet after-dinner smoke. Members of the Yale Dining Association are allowed to smoke at will...