Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Varsity launch has been found to be completely worthless since the accident, and some other arrangement will have to be made for coaching the crew at New London...
...coming season. Any prognostications about the position which we shall occupy in the league, are, at this season of the year, entirely out of place. The hard work of the men in the gymnasium has not been lost. By it some men have been shown to be worthless; the majority have shown a marked improvement...
This plan is a good one and eventually must be adopted as one of the necessary reforms of the college. The present system of examinations is comparatively worthless. It allows a man to grind up in a single night a whole half year's work, and the result is he remembers just enough to pass a fair examination the next day, and afterwards knows nothing about his subject. It is the exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does...
...most marked differences between the new and old-time modes of teaching English literature. Formerly the students were crammed with facts and dates, such as the time when the authors were born and died, and the names and dates of publication of their principal works. Anything more worthless than this is difficult of conception. Today a practical acquaintance with the works of the authors is the object sought...
...recent kind do not deserve a like punishment at the hands of the authorities. Not that I think such punishment will result in the moral reform of the offender. But is it right that the students in large courses should have to suffer from the unscrupulousness of a few worthless fellows, who are allowed to go about with impunity...