Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to call attention through your columns to the repeated discourtesies shown to the instructor in the twelve o'clock section of English C. Scraping of feet, rattling of papers, useless and insulting laughter are participated in at each lecture, much to the discredit of all the men in the course. Cat calls are bad enough, but when it comes to putting cats themselves in the instructor's chair, the affair becomes very childish indeed. The constant disrespect shown by the members of this section is a reflection upon the class of ninety-seven and upon the University...
Again, art must not be approached through philosophy. It is worse than useless to attempt to see a picture or a statute through the arbitrary line of a rule or a formula...
Finally, there is no absolute standard by which to judge art. Nothing is perfect in art, nothing entirely useless. Every man must judge art through his own personality. If he has reached his opinions surely and carefully, no disagreement can overthrow that opinion...
...actual number of persons enrolled. The University includes among its officers, some of the most influential citizens of Cambridge. There is good ground for hoping that an appeal endorsed by them and well supported by the student body would have some effect when all previous efforts have been practically useless...
...chief change has been made in the basement or cellar of the building, where a complete metamorphosis has taken place. In the western end of this floor a large, well-lighted and well ventilated room has been made out of what was formerly a dark and comparatively useless cellar. In order to effect this change, the brick partitions, which formerly separated the cellar into several rooms, were removed and in their place were put iron girders supported by small iron pillars. The old windows which were very small and high up, were lengthened and broadened. This new room is ventilated...