Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contribution. It is out of the question to raise the full amount $150,000 or even a moderate portion of it, here in the University. What can be accomplished is to convince the alumni, on whom the burden must fall, that their larger contributions will not be made in vain. They must be made to realize the genuine desire which now exists among undergraduates for an accessible place to play golf. Mere signing of a petition, or expressions of enthusiasm in print, will not carry full conviction. An actual contribution to the fund, however small, will so more than many...
Innovations are always in order, and if those who succumbed yesterday after three hours of watching the battered Fedoras and frayed collars of the men just in front can fell that their sufferings were in the great cause of efficiency, there sacrifice will not have been in vain. The intention was a good one, and registration outside the Yard may be a blessing in disguise, but why in the name of common sense was it deemed practical to send all four registering classes to four respective tables via one narrow entrance? And why, such being the case...
...such admonitions there came the great collective attacks on Negro life and property in Washington, Omaha, Elaine, and Tulsa. There came the increasing boldness of lynchers who advertised their purposes in advance and had their photographs taken as they stood around the burning bodies of their victims. There came vain appeals by the colored people to the President of the United States and to the Houses of Congress. And finally there came the reorganization and rapid growth of the Ku Klux Klan...
...hope that this work has not been done in vain. We hope that these measures will be put into very immediate effect. It will be noted that, while the College is now carrying on a most important experiment in the institution of tutorial work and divisional examinations on a broad scale, the report deals almost entirely with matters other than the examinations themselves. This is most fitting. For the divisional examinations have shown that their success as well as their failure is entirely dependent on what has gone before. Perhaps the most important single lesson that they are teaching...
...tricks that are vain...