Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second of a series of five lectures on "Political Engineering" before a large and interested audience in Emerson Hall yesterday afternoon. His topic was "The Happiness of Nations." Happiness cannot be defined, but may be exemplified by experiences. Voluntary acts are divided into those which are useful and useless; useful acts are subdivided into productive and consumptive ones; consumptive acts, in turn, are divided into positive and negative, and productive acts into pleasurable and pleasureless ones. Productive acts are further subdivided into compulsory and spontaneous acts...
...practically unsuccessful until 1884. Since then many types have been invented, all having the general shape of a fish, the most notable of which is that invented by Zeppelin. They have been brought to a great degree of perfection but have the one great fault that they are practically useless in a high wind...
This morning's communication does not throw any new light on the subject of the Gymnasium, but if it helps to keep alive interest in the need of a new building, it will amply serve its purpose. The present building is so hopelessly behind the times that it seems useless to try to improve it. If all the changes suggested were made, the Gymnasium would still be too small for general use and a great deal of money would have been spent in a futile endeavor to provide suitable facilities for indoor exercise. But although it may be unwise...
This announcement was made after a conference with J. C. Rice, the coach. It was decided that any attempt to maintain a crew with the small number of men now practicing would be a useless expense and unfair to the students and graduates who have aided in paying the debt outstanding from last year and raising money for this year's crew...
...methods of reform have been proposed: by business, and by labor. The former is absolutely useless, for business is as rotten as politics. There is the same kind of treason in the insurance companies as in the legislature. Labor is equally unfitted for reform; the San Francisco labor government is as corrupt as any business enterprise. The old game of politics, the kind that Mr. Roosevelt plays, is one of compromise. The politician bought his position and kept it. Now the political aspirant should promise to follow out a definite program and make others promise and keep their word...