Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complained of in college men seldom, if ever, comes from the athletic set, but from those who have the least to do with athletics. We think it would be difficult to point out any moral evil that men receive from legitimate professional training. It is true that a few foolish and weak men have been persuaded to enter the professional arena, but that is no reason why the hundreds who do not should suffer for the faults of the very few. Men who are not able to resist the fascinating wiles of the ungentlemanly professional trainer, are not worth looking...
...both is not the same, and therefore in our opinion much better had been separated and not made the one to depend upon the other. If in any point, in these the necessity of amendment will first be felt. The prohibition of contests with general amateurs is certainly a foolish one in the sense that it is unnecessary, arbitrary and oppressive, and was evidently a concession on the part of Harvard to other colleges-a concession that the Harvard faculty can very well make, but the weight of which will fall entirely upon the students who were entirely unconsulted...
...young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...
...anything which cultivates this tendency is not in any sense an advantage to the student. But more than this is the loss of comparatively a whole year and one too of the most importance in a man's life. Of course it must be admitted that it is most foolish for a student to be thrown into college so prepared that he can only struggle along with great difficulty. But it must be granted also that if a man is thoroughly prepared to take his entrance examinations, he can easily keep along with his class. If, however, it comes...
...value of the Greek literature and the excellent quality of the instruction, the Greek department counts three students for every two in the Latin. German and French or Political Economy and Italian stand in the same mutual relation. In fact, the hypothesis that the American youth is so foolish and so short-sighted that he will inevitably choose easy and useless studies in preference to useful and difficult ones finds no support in experience...