Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Politics or Pruning-hooks, it is injurious, and should go. One of the most important features in the acquisition of an education is the ability to think and weigh decisions for oneself; given both sides of a case, the final judgment, unless it comes from the student himself, is worthless both to the student and as a judgment. Spoon-fed minds can never be anything but a sop to the community. And, incidentally, the propagandists are defeating their own ends; for as soon as a counter-propagandist appears who can out-shout them, their converts, trained to be "followers". Carlylian...
This resolution is interesting first, because it is still another indication that dissatisfaction with the present status of football exists among undergraduates; second, because it is almost worthless as a means of getting specific results. Its very vagueness is proof of the fact that the problems of various institutions differ greatly; that a definite solution can not be reached by unified action. General meetings of college presidents or undergraduate representatives crystallize opinion; beyond that little is accomplished. The ultimate goal is a reform, national in scope, which will be brought about only by measures adopted by individual institutions to meet...
...bitterest, tells of the moral disintegration of Anthony Patch, and his wife Gloria. Anthony is our old friend Amory Blaine, now made for the sake of variety a Harvard man. Whether or not it is because of a change of Alma Mater, he is a little more consistently worthless than his Princeton prototype but otherwise he is the same. A good part of the novel is devoted to analyzing his character but for all this it seems to us that if Mr. Fitzgerald had described him in the first place as incurably lazy and entirely lacking in moral force...
...quiz upon a subject that a student has lately studied is a useful test of his attention and of his ability to concentrate; but asking all manner of men all manner of questions in which they have but the slightest interest is a worthless method of detecting their ability or capacity to discharge their duties. The New York Tribune
Something has changed since 1919. According to the Legion's Constitution, its purpose, among other things, was, "to foster and perpetuate one hundred per cent Americanism; . . . to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, State, and Nation". The obligation that can be measured in dollars is pretty worthless compared to one hundred per cent Americanism. For the disabled soldier, let us do everything within reason to help him to help himself; the others, whose service has been such that it is an insult to appraise it in cash, must expect a certain amount of hardship--war never comes...