Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brief two hours this evening Seniors will be able to renew the pleasures of Freshman smokers. Those who have assumed the traditional seriousness of academic elders will have an opportunity to throw off the disguise, and present their normal, frivolous and foolish characters to their classmates. The gathering will be exclusive, the entertainment informal, the speeches inspiring and the conversation highly entertaining. It is the first event on the social' calendar for the winter. Don't fail to accept the invitation in person...
Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...
...Benjamin's slightly cynical little allegory, "A Vocational Trilogy," suggests that man has too much pride, or perhaps is too foolish, to admit failure, and will cheerfully repeat his mistakes. "The Crimson Stain," by Mr. Burman, is a grim and hardly a convincing story of a penitent grave-snatcher. The same writer returns to the charge with "The Doctor from Spain." This time he develops an entertaining tale of the adventure of a pretended doctor; after the denouement he seems rather uncertain how to end his story. Mr. Parson has allowed himself hardly enough room, in "Captain Kidd and Crew...
...that consequently their teams automatically round into form. As a matter of fact, Cornell gets no more good schoolboy stars than any other college of like size. The real solution lies in the spirit which gets men out and makes them interested in working for their college. It is foolish to say that Harvard has no track material. Out of the 1100 odd men who are eligible for teams there must certainly be a fair percentage of men who are capable of being developed into point-winners, at least in the dual meets. Experience has proved again and again that...
...Perhaps no one who has not himself been can realize the value of the experience which a man gets at Plattsburg. It is the best summer he can have. Not only do I believe it is an undergraduate's duty to go, if he can, but he is foolish not to take this opportunity. If he does not, he will regret it now, and probably all the rest of his life...