Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more than ever before there is a great need of money. Heretofore the crew has rowed its races in borrowed shells as the boat made in the freshman year by Waters of Troy, although made over last year, is utterly useless...
...tremendous activity and indefatigable research, but his great stores of mental lore were no mere useless acquisition. All the powers and the resources of his mind were held by him as a sacred trust to aid his spiritual thought and to substantiate before men the result of his thought...
...sharp enough to catch the thief in the act. Apparently Harvard must suffer continually from the thieving of men who seem to make a regular profession of picking pockets, lockers and in fact of appropriating to themselves whatever they can safely lay their hands upon. It is useless to waste words in trying to express the disgust and contempt which everyone feels for such specimens of humanity. It is supposed that a man contemptible enough to steal is proof against any sensitiveness at the epithets which might justly be heaped upon him. We sincerely wish he were...
...second place it will afford a closer and better management of the funds. Hitherto the Graduate Treasurer, a person in another town and occupied in other business, has had charge of the surplus over the expenses of each athletic team. It has been useless to furnish him with detailed accounts of expenses, for he has neither the time nor the experience in learning what are and what are not justified to verify them. He has served chiefly as a receiver of proceeds. The Graduate Treasurer now will be able to reduce expenses to a proper sum and to keep...
...keepers for the lodging of the ministers who might be visiting a town, and on these bills we invariably find charged drinks of all sorts. We often find in those days that ministers frequently ran distilleries, and yet no comment was ever made. It would be, of course, useless for me to say how much advancement has been made since then...