Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have noticed the tendency of student liberal clubs throughout the country (with the expception of the University organiztion, which occasionally chastises it self with a non-redical speaker) to scrap all wise conservation; implying that they imbibed it in their cradles, and having after maturer judgment found it useless, have discarded it... Teir error in rgarding conservatism as stationary (if it were there would still be party in ngald fovour fedal dues and maschuesetts legislators constructing pillories), in denying that there is progressive conservatism perpetually teaching a lession. It does not keep us from going foward, but Insists that...
...thinking, laws of reason, processes of gathering and analyzing and arranging, and giving solution to the facts of his future problems; his visions it can stimulate. Experience teaches men the rule of thumb, but culture should teach men the generalizations and truths of mind. A smattering of Biology is useless; knowledge of the scientific method is invaluable. And so with the other departments:--methods are the things which all men naturally desire to know. They are what men live by. Give me a universal law--O bearer of lux of veritas (light and truth!)--and I will spend the rest...
...system should spread out over the new territory simultaneously--the two systems should expand together. Then the other services, such as water, sewers and light can follow. But transit is the first essential. With all of the other services mentioned, but without transit, a new city area is almost useless to the community...
...limit to the things which a student can do it is remarkable what can be accomplished by a little systematization, not only in study but in other lines of endeavor as well. If the average student counted up the hours absolutely wasted in idle talk or in some other useless from of inactivity, he would find that his working hours are far less than he really supposed...
...large number of misunderstandings arise every year over the College regulations. Sooner or later most of us go to University 4 and have a consultation with one of the Deans during which many of our ideas appear false, and the office seems tied up with useless red tape. Unfortunately, however, the College office has to have a certain number of regulations to settle the various questions which constantly come up for settlement; the main difficulty is that comparatively few undergraduates even attempt to understand them...