Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...safety of our system lies, not in the learning of the few, but in the intelligence of the many. A national university could not diffuse education, it could only impart to a very few a degree of learning which most men are not ambitious to possess, and which is powerless to make them better citizens or more upright men." Our Vermont friend is also of the opinion that a national university would be a fruitful source of political corruption, and that the management would be fettered by congressional experiments and investigations. "It means that the revolution of parties would...
...could invent some form of annoyance more offensive or humiliating. No one stopped to look at the question from the other standpoint. No one thought it was an unmanly thing for four or five men to enter a man's room, and knowing him to be powerless to insult him in every way. Such an amusement from some distorted way of looking at it was held quite worthy of gentlemen. So, looking back, it seems indeed to be a source of congratulation to the college that all such performances are banished to the past. Nor has this change taken place...
...notorious fact that a large amount of thieving is done by the waiters at Memorial; it is even said that the authorities at the hall are cognizant of the abuse but consider themselves powerless to stop it. The men at one table took the trouble recently to note the pilfering operations which came under their observation, and, judging of the other waiters by those observed, the total amount of stealings must be something enormous. Whole pies and plates of meat are hidden until after meal time and then carried away. We should think that something might be done to stop...
...training, the intense partizanship, the large expenditures and the encouragement given to betting and other rowdy accompaniments of professional athletics. The truest accounts of the Yale game, it is asserted, show it to have been a disgraceful exhibition of brutality and cheating. It is declared that the referee seemed powerless to see or check the continual disregard of rules, that the position of umpire seemed degraded to that of coach, and that the theory of the winning game was to violate rules at every available opportunity, and to physically disable antagonists regardless of the consequences. It is urged that...
...upon in due time. These few facts might well be stated here. In the first place, the appointment of vacations, their lengthening and shortening, is made by the corporation; secondly, the vacations, which have hitherto been satisfactory, are appointed in the statutes, and lastly, the college faculty is utterly powerless in the matter and can only recommend changes of any such nature to the corporation. Next Monday evening, therefore, this petition will be considered. It will either be laid on the table or referred to the corporation with or without recommendation. The Crimson is progressive, we know, and we admire...