Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Dining Association has just contracted for a new engine and generator, a much needed addition to the present plant. It will guard against a breakdown and consequent crippling of the service, for although the present auxiliary power is suited for lighting purposes, it is useless for the washing and ice-cream machinery, the well-pump and ventilating fan, all of which take direct current. In the spring, when the ventilating and artificial ice plants must be run longer each day than they are now, the generator would be heavily over-loaded and might prove inadequate. The installation...
...offenders. Furthermore, if fewer peddling licenses were issued, if police stations were closed to tramps who might better be confined in places where work was exacted, and if blind and crippled children were attended to early in life, we should find a great decrease in the number of these useless citizens...
...weakness of the Harvard team was due principally to the ends, who with the exception of Montgomery, were practically useless. The playing of Filley questions the policy of using in important games a man who has not has more practice with the team. Leary was equally incapable. Brill, at left tackle, played a good offensive game, but though commendably active on the defense, allowed many of the plays he should have stopped to go right over him. Oveson, at right tackle, put up a remarkably good game considering the fact that he was obliged to play outside his own position...
...idea of compressing Class Day and Commencement into one week is certainly good, but since, as has before been suggested in the CRIMSON, it can be done in a much simpler way, not open to these objections, it would seem useless for the Senior Class today to adopt a plan which is such a radical departure. A. H. WEED...
...yard line, offside lost a number of yards in penalties, and holding once caused the loss of the ball. The game showed that the Harvard players had as good mastery of the individual positions as had Yale, but that without team-work and a strong defense it was useless to hope...