Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...congregate in open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...University to grapple with every great question that may arise no matter what the consequences, it is even more the peculiar task and duty of a University to secure its deliberations in a complete impartial manner and to do nothing in word or speech which shall arouse fruitless passion or personal antagonisms. Whether or not this line has as yet been overstepped is a matter of individual opinion. It is a conclusion admitting of no diversity of opinion that with the foreign situation in its present critical position, with the continued neutrality of the United States by no means assured...
...interference was late and he was tackled for a loss of five yards. He punted to Bates' 25-yard line, the runback netting five. The first play lost a yard. The next caught Hardwick off his guard, Keeney making five yards around right end. The gain was fruitless, however, for Bates immediately fumbled, the ball being recovered for Harvard by Withington. On the next play, Brickley, aided by splendid interference, ran through the whole Bates team 35 yards for a touchdown. Hardwick again kicked the goal...
...first place, if Sophomores are to have buttons, there is every reason why Juniors and Freshmen, too, should have them. Then, with everyone running about with a class emblem in his lapel, the useful simplicity of the present distinction of the class button will give way to bewildering and fruitless intricacy. Fancy the effectiveness of class buttons when they require more than a mere glance to be distinguished...
...pledges are void unless the lights are installed by next October, the campaign of this spring will have been absolutely fruitless unless the $125 still needed is raised at once. Pledge slips will be found at Leavitt & Peirce's where they may be signed for any amount. Payment is not due till next February. A large number of Sophomores who have not pledged anything should feel it their duty to do so before leaving Cambridge, while all men who wish to increase their pledges should sign another slip, marking it "additional pledge." It is absolutely essential to obtain $125 more...