Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mistaken view that all the critical reviews, essays, stories, plays, poems, and what not, we write, must be worth printing. To be sure, it may be very good training to attempt a poem which proves to be anything but poetry; but to publish such a failure is foolish...
...former club in its two games made twelve hits and eight runs to our twenty-five hits and twenty-one runs, while the latter club managed to get eight hits and seven runs to our thirty hits and twenty-eight runs. All this talk about subservient umpires is as foolish as it is unjust...
...fifth, Harvard made three runs, two of them being earned, off a three-base hit by Nichols, a single by Willard, and another three-baser by Allen. Allen scored on a passed ball and Smith was put out at home in a foolish attempt to score. Dartmouth added two runs in this inning bringing the score up to 9 to 3 for Harvard. In the sixth, our nine failed to score for the second and last time; Dartmouth likewise receiving a blank, although Scruton reached first on a wild throw by Wiestling, and went around to third...
...this is a drawback that can be overcome, provided the man is sensible enough to accept petty duties at two and twenty, and not be above learning the rudimentary duties of business life. The failure of so many college educated men in business may be attributed to this foolish pride of age, this refusal to do what must be learned by all, young and old, who intend to make a business career successful. In trade, as in the professions, no power is stronger than that of a well educated...
There was a penny wise and pound foolish policy that was followed at Memorial in years past. It consisted in saving expense by lowering the standard, and thereby driving away boarders. This is diametrically opposed to the policy now in vogue. Good board and many boarders make lower prices, than less expensive board and few boarders...