Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Until the people who are engaged in the active life of the modern world bring themselves to understand the language of a cooperative religion instead of that of a competitive life it will be useless to endeavor to influence them by that religion". Dr. Sperry continued by outlining the problem of the struggle between Christianity and Competition, and concluded by saying that most of the intellectual fighting of the next few years will be concerned with the endeavor to solve this problem...
...spend. Nor is there evidence of an accession of interest in the regard for that classical and humane culture which used to be synonymous with college education, for there has been of late a particularly widespread and vigorous drive against that sort of culture as "not practical" and therefore useless...
Freshman, what we have said is as useless as all advice. If you follow it you may find it good, that is the most that can be said of it. But we know that many have wasted half or all their four years here finding that work was the only remedy for their ills; it may be that this will help you make the discovery sooner...
...doubtless very diverting to the Germans, but they are not so to the rest of the world; nations do not like to have farces played directly above the heads of their dead. The Germans, like Sentimental Tommy, may have "found a w'y", but their way is a useless, and not at all pleasant...
...often waste their time absorbing a host of details appertaining to work covered before the mid-year period which are of little value in passing a final examination or in understanding the subject matter as a whole. There can be no particular advantage in this bewildering the mind with useless material. If the student is made aware of the kind of examination to be expected, he can better prepare himself for more than a mere "gentleman's mark...