Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service. Princeton nevertheless recognizes that the students who respond to the call of their country at the sacrifice of their college course should receive some high official mark of distinction from their Alma Mater, and the University authorities have accordingly met this unusual situation by providing, not a meaningless degree, but a specially engraved war certificate, setting forth that the holder was a student in good and regular standing, and that he left his University to enter the service of his country. Dean West is preparing this war certificate. It does not require the gift of prophecy to foresee that...
...Perhaps the most striking fact," says Mr. Weber, "in all these years of composition has been the docility of the students. Is the arrogance of youth' a meaningless phrase? I can count on my fingers the students who have rebelled against my criticisms. . . . . I wonder whether the same conditions prevail at Harvard or at Bryn Mawr? I know they do not in athletics...
That in a time of almost unprecedented danger in our foreign relations, a successful mechanic whose triumph in the production of inexpensive automobiles has brought his name before the public, a man who is reported to have remarked that history is a meaningless tradition and that three bankers caused the European war-and yet these are the days of compulsory elementary education and public libraries-a man who sailed for Europe with a following of cranks and unbalanced school teachers to bring about an international settlement whose importance and difficulty will surpass the problems that faced the Congress of Vienna...
...judicious calculation. There is no call to harp on the old cry of overconfidence; the clippings that are printed in another column do that convincingly from the standpoint of the expert spectator. And as for comparative scores, it may as well be admitted at once that they are almost meaningless, unless all the antics of wind and weather and moods and training can be allowed for with delicate accuracy...
...Harvard instructors to task in rather vigorous terms for their faulty lecturing technique and enunciation in the classroom. The correspondent objects to the haltings and stammerings of some teachers in their discussions; but pays his respects in particular to the annoying habit of filling in these gaps "with a meaningless 'uh'." The complainant is doubtless right to a great degree. There are always some men whose busy minds team with so many ideas at once, that expression must halt and waver while the thoughts struggling for expression fight it out among themselves. The "meaningless 'uh'" is of course merely...