Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...board most ready to advocate change and most openly "unsubservient" have been waiters. There has never been any strong feeling of common interest or any solid organization of the men who wait at the Foxcroft Club and there never will be unless it is produced artificially by such senseless discrimination as your correspondent advises...
These are briefly the things we shall lose by senseless and unprofitable demonstration, and now let us see what is asked of us in our next celebration. Certainly there is nothing unreasonable or in any way unjust in asking students to give up the use of fire-arms and explosives of all kinds, and when we have named this we have practically spoken of every form of restriction that is put upon us. The committee of students, carefully chosen from those most interested in athletics, was unanimous in condemning, and condemning strongly, this method of celebrating athletic victories. It will...
...football tournament between the teams of Harvard and Yale in Springfield had terrible results. It turned into an awful butchery. Of twenty-two participants seven were so severely injured that they had to be carried from the field in a senseless condition. The vertebral column of one was put out of joint; a second one's nose was broken; a third lost an eye and a fourth broke his leg. The rest suffered severe internal injuries...
...condemn luxury and comfort in a sweeping way he thought senseless and characteristic only of a very shallow thinker. Certainly all the luxury with which Harvard's sons had been lavished, did not abate one whit the patriotic ardor they showed in the late war. When a test came, Harvard men were revealed, not shorn of their manliness, but armed with full strength and vigor...
...thought of this part of the article, however, we will all agree with the protest against the present method of putting the ball in play which allows the opposing centre rusher half the ball. It is this rule which is in a large measure responsible for the present senseless struggle which goes on in the rush line before the ball is put in play. Mr. Leeds is right in saying that interference should begin only after the ball has been put in play, but that it doesn't and won't so long as each side owns half the ball...