Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...needs. A simple teacher of gymnastics without the light of anatomical knowledge to judge of each student's condition and powers by careful examination, would be no improvement on the present state of affairs, and under him all exercises might gradually give place to class-drill or that most worthless form of physical exercise - the military drill...
...honors, will also be much diminished. Even the most careless reading of the article shows an inconsistency in the writer's position; for if, as he asserts, the new honors "will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors of Arts," it is extremely unlikely that these worthless honors will be such unusually strong inducements to work as to "double the amount of studying for marks...
...years after it was built it was loaned to the Freshmen, who kicked a hole in the bottom of it. As for Keart, "the Yale factotum," about whom we heard so much before the race, he built a shell for the Yale crew, and it was so worthless that they never could use it, and it is now falling to pieces in a New Haven boat-house...
...have no hesitation in saying that, so far as this paper is concerned, the statement was entirely false, and inquiries have developed the fact that the statistics of other papers are equally erroneous. We say this merely to relieve our exchanges from the necessity of further copying a worthless item...
...close, and, as I have said, I shall not be able to write to you again. I hope that it has given you as much pleasure to receive my letters as it has given me to write them; and I sincerely hope that you have not found them utterly worthless. One or two friends who have looked over my shoulder while I have been writing have found great fault with me, and have called me worldly and cynical and snobbish. They may be right. Perhaps I am. But I do not think that I am a bad fellow at heart...