Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Paul's Society last night. He took as his text, "Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, shall men give it into your bosom." Sacrifice, he said, is the fundamental principle of Christianity. It must not be a useless sacrifice like the heathen offerings to idols but it must be rather...
Colors are sometimes assumed by animals for purposes of warning, that is for keeping off the animals that are natural enemies. This is done either by a feigned resemblance to an animal of a different and often dangerous kind, or by an appearance of being wounded and therefore useless to an enemy. Pictures were shown of hermit-crabs, which attached to themselves sea-anemonies for the purpose of self-defence, the anemonies being offensive to hostile fishes. One picture represented a deep-sea fish which attracts its prey by a lure in the shape of a phosphorescent light; another showed...
...till it can be fully satisfied on Saturday. There is nothing to be gained by asking questions. The only available news of the practice is contained in the very general reports in the CRIMSON and in the Boston papers. On the other hand, these questions add another and a useless burden to the long list of worriments which everybody connected with the practice has to bear. There are but three days more of suspense before the game, and the students should lighten the burden of the captain and his men as much as possible in this brief period...
...about a week the CRIMSON will issue a call for candidates from the freshman class. We make the announcement thus early that the matter may be given due consideration by the members of the class. If men try who are not fitted for the paper they make useless labor for themselves and trouble for the managers of the sheet. We will state, then, in outline, the scope and aim of the paper, and the qualities that are consequently desired in candidates...
...election of Class Day officers by the senior class is so near at hand that a protest againt illegal and underhanded methods may seem so late as to be useless, yet we must place ourselves squarely against the unfair methods sometimes employed at these elections. The minute a class begins to have "bosses" and to split itself up into antagonistic factions, each running its own candidates, the fairness and honorableness which ought to exist at college if anywhere ceases to exist and the element of "machine polititics" sweeps everything before it. We cannot afford to have a Tammany ring...