Word: valueless
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...However, there is a place for all forms of activity in the world and even though our work in the field of aviation may seem somewhat elementary, we may be certain that it will not be valueless. As it now seems, we have succeeded in producting dirigibles that are durable, practicable, and economical...
...criterion of what the same Crim- son players might do against sterner opposition Saturday's victory is practically valueless. Last year's Middlebury runaway and the subsequent inability of the same, team to show any gaining power against Dartmouth and Princeton is a good example of the deceptive quality of such triumphs...
...inculcating in students more wisdom and not necessarily less knowledge. More specifically, however, I would criticize the suggestion that all laboratory work be abolished in the general science course. Although objection to the average elementary laboratory course is well founded, it does not follow that all such work is valueless for the non-scientist. On the contrary. I believe that the student can only arrive at a real appreciation of the scientific method by actually doing experiments himself. In well-conducted laboratory work, students do not know definitely enough what the results will be to spoil the experiment as such...
...Bowdoin, the young Harvard gentlemen had been urged to their task by no authority higher than their own creative curiosity. They took their findings before a council of their fellows and then laid them, unanimously ratified, before the university, with the modest hope that "they may not be altogether valueless...
...Student Council when it accepted them, that they be taken as definitive, conclusive, or authoritative. Nor was it assumed that students are necessarily best fitted to prescribe for their own case. All that can be said is that students have opinions, and that they may not be altogether valueless. As nearly as such a report can be, this represents a concurrence of opinions...