Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...abolition of the compulsory system here was hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Please allow me to criticise the execrable coaching which the freshmen received in Wednesday's game while on bases. They have much to learn in respect to this important feature of the game. Had the captain and his assistant coaches refrained from their constant stream of meaningless yells and given a little real advice at critical moments, their coaching would have been of some use. Let me give some examples: Three times men were on third base when long flies were hit to the out-field, and in each instance the coach failed to have the runner...
...obtained some of the effects he was evidently striving after, and one or two good conceptions are worked out. As a whole, however, the "Legend" is strained, and the vagueness and mystery in it, instead of giving color to it, are carried to far and make it utterly meaningless. The poetry in this number is good. "Flowers." the translation from Paul Bourget, is well rendered, and gains in effectiveness by being put into blank verse. In ' O Tempora," a pretty idea, well expressed, is hurt by faulty metre. A second strong poem, of deeper thought, is burdened with the pedantic...
...years ago we made you a Bachelor of Arts for work that was somewhat indefinite, but we expect to make the case clearer to the public by giving the same degree to your son for work of an entirely different character? If the old degree is so indefinite and meaningless, it is strange that any of the reformed want it all. We should suppose that they would wish the superiority of the new education to be indicated by some appropriate degree...
...have a proof sheet of the cover of the new Index before us, and it is gratifying to see that it is quite a departure from the time-honored, meaningless palm tree or some similar design. The medals or seals of the various college societies are placed in a rather artistic way here and there on the page. The Advocate's Pegasus and Lampy himself are there, and the CRIMSON is represented by the color of the ink in which the design is printed. Though the arrangement and prominence given to the different societies might have been a little more...