Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question is whether or not Princeton will agree this fall to play a game of foot ball with Harvard within the limits of New England. If Princeton very soon expresses a willingness to do this, then we feel sure that Harvard will do her part. It is utterly useless to say anything about a game outside of New England. We have a strict rule which cannot, now, under any circumstances be overlooked this fall. We call attention to the fact that reference to New England does not necessarily mean Jarvis field, but any one of the great number of neutral...
...what some other moment of his life finds him reflectively to be. All consciousness is merely an appeal to other consciousness, to a past self. The more we commune with others, the richer this past consciousness becomes. An attempt to attain holiness through separation from the world is therefore useless. True, spiritual life lies rather in struggling with sin and overcoming...
...life is that of Edward Caird, in Blackwood's "Philosophical Classics." Of Dr. Hutchinson Sterling's famous and historically important book, "The Secret of Hegel" (2 vols. 8 vo., Edinburgh, 1865), much both good and evil can well be said, but the work is at all events useless to the elementary student. More valuable for a fairly equipped beginner is Wallace's "Logic of Hegel...
...yesterday was encouraging; yet points which might be criticized are too numerous to mention. The game must have shown our players the danger of off-side playing, and we were pleased to see the umpire take notice of it. Harvard must pay more attention to football and beware of useless scrimmages and illegitimate work...
WHILE it is one of the functions of the CRIMSON to publish notices for the various college institutions, we must warn men that it will be useless to send in notices for publication more than twice; moreover, we demand that notices be made as short as possible...