Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior Advisor system, as now practiced in the University, has proved of undoubted value, and has been of much benefit to Freshmen. Nevertheless, certain faults exist; and until these are removed, it is useless to hope for the best results...
...country becoming more involved with each new twist which the tide of industrial foment takes, careful analysis of the root of our inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling and inordinately repressive laws forced the postponement of much needed political and industrial reform for a period of nearly ten years. With...
...years back, in a five-person group crammed into a tiny two-bedroom suite in Winthrop House. At the same time, Winthrop had an unprecedented number of resident tutors. When I suggested in The Crimson on obvious remedy to our predicament, namely reducing the swollen ranks of the rather useless tutors, the response was immediate: a menacing answering machine message from one tutor and an invitation to the Senior Tutor's office for a dressing down for my "ingratitude...
...philosophy to a power of detachment, a course on Shakespeare to an understanding of human nature--in short, where study would strengthen them to meet the facts of life as they will have to be met day after day until death. A mind well disciplined and stripped of useless lumber should be the goal of a college education, and not an untrained intelligence staggering under a load or information never to be needed...