Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Flora, foolish, but not footless, R. L. Scaife...
...Fauna, foolish, but not footless, H. B. Fenno...
...next place, I know that there is not a single Harvard correspondent who is not loyal to his university-and more loyal than those carping critics who tear out imaginary gray hairs over the result, instead of seeking to apply a remedy at the ultimate cause the foolish and lawless spirit which some undergraduates are always bound to show on the occasion of an athletic victory. One might as well blame a man or a newspaper for reporting the account of the Bram murder trial; since this was such a terrible murder and such a disgrace to civilization...
...commenting on the editorial in the Graduates' Magazine which complains of sensational and "padded" Harvard news written by students for the Boston papers, he says: that such reports are caused by the foolish and lawless spirit displayed by undergraduates in their celebrations, and that a good tempering influence is exerted by their publication. He forgets that objection is not made to the existence of the reports themselves, but to their sensational, distorted, and often absolutely false character. The assertion than none of these reports is ever the work of a Harvard man is one which we should like to believe...
...Class Day elections approach, the societies submit to us men, in their opinion, best fitted for the various places. The class may accept this list by the vote of its majority, or it may reject it, and "Graduates" reference to "intimidation" is as fictitious as it is positively foolish. To recapitulate, then, the strongest argument for the present system is that the one proposed offers no improvement. Ninety-seven would gladly welcome a change for the better, but up to and including "Graduate's" article, none has been proposed...