Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...still greater importance, for with the advent of 'Varsity material to the class boats, the Weld standard should be raised. The first crucial point in this season's rowing came when the candidates were first called out and there was a feeling that it would be useless to try against 'Varsity men. Fortunately this cut no figure and the response was a general one. The second is now before us. If the Weld crews receive the support due them from the men dropped from their class squads, not only will the new regime be doubly justified but it will...
...whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...
...remedy for all this has been suggested. One of the lessons of Scripture renders us the fundamental economic law that nothing can be established except by human labor. Arbitration is wholly useless to settle these questions, but it is a healthy sign of public interest. The true solution of the problem is the recognition of the principal of brotherhood. The employer must recognize his employee as equally interested with himself in his business...
munication says. If the consensus of opinion is favorable, let it be vigorously expressed, and transmitted to the committee at once. The meeting is called for business, and not for useless talk...
...Varsity football and baseball teams as well as visiting teams. The other side is to go to the Mott Haven team, and the centre section will be given over to the class teams and men not regularly on the 'Varsity teams. Overhead the large centre portion, which is now useless, is to be enlarged by flooring over the well, and turned into a general exercise room for the various teams. It was also proposed to lay out hand ball courts in the vacant spaces at the rear of the building...