Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Class elections have long been a useless antique is history; that they have become an expensive antique as well is a new aspect which the Council should recognize at once...
...intellectual snobbishness and unduly impressed with its own importance. Properly conceived, it can have two important results. For the brilliant man, it should be a priceless goal, a sharp spur to original thought. To the average student, it should give answer to oft repeated condemnations of advanced study as useless research, and should inspire a new respect for great scholarship...
...Health job. The doctor, an active, level-headed but choleric 60-year-old, has no very exalted view of medicine, speaks his candid mind on all occasions. ''An old horse doctor like me looks at them and all he can see is that medical science is perfectly useless in 95 out of every 100 cases." Though he has great contempt for most of his neighbors, Doc Bull has found a kindred spirit in Janet Cardmaker, unconventional spinster who is far from being an old maid. She and Doc Bull are suspect, thought to be in league, but neither...
...Useless to ask questions of the man who drew up the budget! He, debonair M. Francois Pietri. Minister of the Budget in the Laval Cabinet, not only forgot-believe it or not-his handiwork completely but rushed to Premier Herriot's aid in the Chamber debate fortnight ago, delivered an elegant harangue asking his fellow Deputies to "vote this payment for the honor of France...
...Greek and Latin requirements are a sort of vermiform appendix in the academic system, vestiges of an earlier order at Harvard in which the classics were the central point of college education. Today they are not only useless, but a serious hindrance to pursuing a rational program of study. The CRIMSON has protested against them from time to time, not because they involve work in the dead languages, but because they are utterly pointless from any angle of criticism. According to the "Rules Relating to College Studies": Candidates for the degree of S.B., in order to receive Honors (in English...